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5, High Ousegate

A Grade II Listed Building in Guildhall, York

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.958 / 53°57'28"N

Longitude: -1.0819 / 1°4'55"W

OS Eastings: 460336

OS Northings: 451717

OS Grid: SE603517

Mapcode National: GBR NQWN.KX

Mapcode Global: WHFC3.CS02

Plus Code: 9C5WXW59+66

Entry Name: 5, High Ousegate

Listing Date: 14 June 1954

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257646

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463620

ID on this website: 101257646

Location: York, North Yorkshire, YO1

County: York

Electoral Ward/Division: Guildhall

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: York

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: York All Saints, Pavement

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


YORK

SE6051NW HIGH OUSEGATE 1112-1/28/441 (North side) 14/06/54 No.5

GV II

House, now shop and offices. 1743, remodelled and extended mid C19; C20 shopfront. Red brick in Flemish bond, with timber cornice, pantile roof and brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 5-window front. Shopfront incorporates passage entrance in plain pilaster and moulded cornice doorcase at left end. Windows on first and second floors are 12-pane sashes with sills and flat arches of contrasting gauged brick: third floor windows are 3-light Yorkshire sliding sashes. Raised brick string courses to second and third floors. Moulded frieze beneath massive cornice on block brackets, returned at each end; dated rainwater head, initialled FI, to right of centre bay. INTERIOR: first floor: C19 staircase rises from first to third floor having open string, shaped treadends, turned balusters and serpentine handrail, wreathed at foot on turned newel. Front right room has fireplace in surround enriched with ribbon and flower mouldings, frieze with floral centre panel between foliate arabesques and enriched cornice shelf: overmantel panel has eared surround and scrollneck pediment enclosing blank cartouche. Upper part of walls fitted with moulded sunk panelling over moulded dado rail and with enriched modillion cornice. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 147).

Listing NGR: SE6033651717

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