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7, Low Ousegate

A Grade II Listed Building in Guildhall, York

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9575 / 53°57'26"N

Longitude: -1.0828 / 1°4'58"W

OS Eastings: 460280

OS Northings: 451653

OS Grid: SE602516

Mapcode National: GBR NQWP.C3

Mapcode Global: WHFC3.BSMH

Plus Code: 9C5WXW48+XV

Entry Name: 7, Low Ousegate

Listing Date: 24 June 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257447

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463873

ID on this website: 101257447

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 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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