Listed Building: 7 St. Helen's Square (1256799)

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Grade II
NHLE 1256799
Date assigned 24 June 1983
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6051NW ST HELEN'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/939 (North East side) 24/06/83 No.7 GV II House and shop. Mid C18, with early C19 alteration; original top storey demolished c1930; further alteration and shopfront of C20. Pink-grey mottled brick in Flemish bond with slate roof and brick stack: timber shopfront. EXTERIOR: 3-storeys; 1-bay front to St Helen's Square, 5-bay front to Stonegate. Shopfront of panelled pilasters, broad fascia incorporating blind boxes, and bold cornice returns on Stonegate front: entrance in centre of Stonegate front. Bevelled glass shop windows are margin-glazed over panelled risers, and have brass sills. First floor to St Helen's Square has tripartite first floor window with 4-:12-:4-pane sashes in segment-arched opening, and 16-pane sash beneath flat arch of gauged brick on second floor, both with painted stone sills. 4-course raised band to second floor: similar band to former third floor now forms parapet with stone coping: both returned on Stonegate front. Stonegate front has four 12-pane sash windows with flat arches, plus one blocked window on first floor. Above 2 similar sashes and a single blind window. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York through the Eyes of the Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-: 88-89; City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 204). Listing NGR: SE6018851972

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Grid reference SE 6018 5197 (point) (2 map features)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Nov 30 2021 9:27PM

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