Listed Building: 1 & 1A Low Ousegate (463869)

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Grade II
LBSUID 463869
Date assigned Friday, June 24, 1983
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE 1112-1/28/571 (South side) 24/06/83 Nos.1 AND 1A (Formerly Listed as: LOW OUSEGATE No.1) GV II House with shop. 1810-20 with later alteration and C20 shopfront; exterior renovated in 1992. Orange-grey brick in Flemish bond with window arches of orange gauged brick; river front on limestone plinth. Timber mutule eaves cornice, returned on right front to slate hipped roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: Low Ousegate front 3 storeys, 3 windows. At left end are paired doorcases of shaped-panel pilasters and bracketed console cornices, consoles and brackets carved as acanthus leaves: doors of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath tall overlights approached by stone steps. Shopfront to right, returned on river front. First floor windows are 12-pane sashes, those on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all with stone sills and flat arches of brick. At right end of cornice, a fluted bowl rainwater head. River front of 3 storeys and basement on chamfered plinth; 5 windows. Plinth has paired plank doors beneath heavy tooled lintel to right of centre, and further right a blocked opening with shaped lintel. Basement has four 16-pane sashes. In centre of upper floors are 2 tall round-headed staircase windows with brick archivolts, each breaking through 2 storeys. Flanking windows on ground and first floors are 12-pane sashes, and on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all with flat arches. All windows have stone sills. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157). Listing NGR: SE6026451643

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Grid reference SE 60264 51642 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Dec 17 2014 5:03PM

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