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26, Coppergate

A Grade II* Listed Building in Guildhall, York

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.958 / 53°57'28"N

Longitude: -1.0803 / 1°4'49"W

OS Eastings: 460443

OS Northings: 451715

OS Grid: SE604517

Mapcode National: GBR NQWN.XX

Mapcode Global: WHFC3.CSS3

Plus Code: 9C5WXW59+6V

Entry Name: 26, Coppergate

Listing Date: 14 June 1954

Last Amended: 14 March 1997

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257900

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463295

ID on this website: 101257900

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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YORK

SE6051NW COPPERGATE
1112-1/28/275 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.26
(Formerly Listed as:
COPPERGATE
No.26
The Market Tavern Public House)

GV II*

House, now restaurant. Late C15; C17 rear wing, extended in
C19; C18 and C19 alterations; renovated in late C20.
MATERIALS: front range timber-framed, now with brick
infilling, plastered and white-washed; timber eaves band,
pierced by quatrefoils, and bracketed cornice to
steeply-pitched tiled roof. Rear wing of brick, rendered and
white-washed, with roofs of slate and pantile. Brick stacks
are rebuilt.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front range, first and second floors
jettied; 2-storey wing with cellar to rear. Renewed glazed
door and windows in shopfront of plain pilasters and moulded
cornice on carved brackets. First floor windows are 4-pane
sashes, on second floor 2-light casements. Ornate console
brackets, quatrefoil in section, attached beneath second floor
jetty.
INTERIOR: lowest flight of spiral staircase survives in cellar
beside chimneybreast against right wall: upper flights
removed. In front range, posts, braces, transverse and spine
beams survive almost intact, including numbered second floor
joists, visible on first floor, and studded partition wall
without infill on second floor. On first and second floors,
original right end wall with studding and plastered infill
survives. Front range has fireplace with lintel of tooled
stone on ground floor; in wing, wide fireplace with cambered
timber lintel, rebated cupboard and chamfered candle shelf.
Three small fireplaces all with cambered brick arches on first
floor.
House was The Market Tavern at least from mid C19 to mid C20.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 128;
Brinklow D and Stockwell M: No.26 Coppergate: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SE6044351715

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