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Numbers 15-21 (Odd) Including Numbers 19A and 21A and Outbuildings Attached at Rear

A Grade II Listed Building in Guildhall, York

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9607 / 53°57'38"N

Longitude: -1.0844 / 1°5'3"W

OS Eastings: 460172

OS Northings: 452008

OS Grid: SE601520

Mapcode National: GBR NQWM.1Y

Mapcode Global: WHFC3.9QW1

Plus Code: 9C5WXW68+76

Entry Name: Numbers 15-21 (Odd) Including Numbers 19A and 21A and Outbuildings Attached at Rear

Listing Date: 19 August 1971

Last Amended: 14 March 1997

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1259517

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462804

ID on this website: 101259517

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 St Helen Stonegate with St Martin Coney Street

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description



YORK

SE6052SW BLAKE STREET
1112-1/27/44 (North East side)
19/08/71 Nos.15-21 (Odd)
including Nos.19A and 21A and
outbuildings attached at rear
(Formerly Listed as:
BLAKE STREET
Nos 15, 17, 19A, 19, 21A, 23 and 25)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.15-25 and premises adjoining on corner
of Southgate BLAKE STREET.
Row of three houses and outbuildings attached at rear; now
shops and business premises. Houses dated 1773 on rainwater
heads; C19 and C20 alterations and shopfronts. Outbuilding
dated 1766 on rainwater head, later partly incorporated into
shop at Nos 19, 19A and 21. For Thomas Haxby, musical
instrument maker.
MATERIALS: houses of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond,
No.21A painted; original timber doorcase to No.17; timber
cornice and brick stacks to hipped slate roof in two ranges
parallel to street. Outbuildings of orange-brown brick in
Flemish bond, part rendered; slate and plain tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 4 storey, 6-bay front. Doorcase to No.17 has plain
pilasters with imposts, frieze and cornice on beaded consoles:
6 fielded panel door in round-arched architrave with fluted
impost band: frieze and spandrels enriched with festooned
paterae. Windows are of various types, some casements, some
1-pane sashes, some 4-pane sashes: on third floor, squat 4- or
6-pane sashes. First floor windows have sill band, others
painted sills; all have flat arches of gauged brick. Inverted
bell rainwater head, dated and initialled TH, at each end of
modillion cornice.
Outbuildings 2 storeys and 3 storeys. 2-storey part has
6-panel door within passage linking it with No.15; outside
doorways closed by boarded doors: on first floor, board
lifting door to left, to right 20-pane fixed light window.
Pyramidal roof has two roof lights. 3-storey part incorporated
into No.21 has 2- and 3-light casement windows with transoms.
Raised bands to first and second floors carried over at first
floor from 2-course brick band on lower building. To right of
eaves, inverted bell rainwater head dated 1766, initialled TH.
INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original staircases,
from first-floor upwards, with turned balusters with square
knops, and square newels above, all with moulded handrails.
Various original 6-panel doors and simple fireplaces.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 109; York
Historian: Haxby D and Malden J: Thomas Haxby of York
(1729-1796): York: 1978-: 43-55).

Listing NGR: SE6017452010

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