Listed Building: 7 Low Ousegate (463873)

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Grade II
LBSUID 463873
Date assigned 24 June 1983
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE 1112-1/28/574 (South side) 24/06/83 No.7 GV II House. Early C18, front rebuilt 1810-20; early C20 shopfront and alterations. Painted brick in Flemish bond with timber shopfront and mutule eaves cornice, returned at left end; slate roof, hipped at front, with tiled coping. EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 2-window front. Shopfront framed in sunk-panel pilasters with wheatear drops, and entablature with pulvinated frieze and moulded dentil cornice: glazed and panelled shop door between curved plate glass windows over raised panel risers, with elliptical-arched 'Gothick'-glazed fanlight above. Upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes on first and second floors, and unequal 9-pane sashes on third floor, all with painted sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Fluted bowl rainwater head on left return. INTERIOR: reset open string staircase with two turned balusters to a tread, and moulded serpentine handrail, ramped up to heavy column newel at stairhead; raised and fielded dado panelling to stairwall. On first floor, room at stairhead has re-used C17 panelling beneath fretwork frieze on one wall; panelled chimneypiece wall has stone bolection moulded fireplace surround, with cornice shelf of moulded timber and eared overmantel panel. Moulded ceiling cornice and two early C18 doors of 3 raised panels survive. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157). Listing NGR: SE6027451650

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Grid reference SE 60274 51650 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Dec 17 2014 5:04PM

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