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NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS

NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 5, 6 AND 7, DRIFFIELD TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257895
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 5, 6 AND 7, DRIFFIELD TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257895
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 5, 6 AND 7, DRIFFIELD TERRACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 5, 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 5, 6 AND 7, DRIFFIELD TERRACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 59278 50958

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YORK

SE5950NW DRIFFIELD TERRACE 1112-1/24/298 (South East side) Nos.5, 6 AND 7 and attached railings, walls and gate piers

GV II

Three houses, now flats and hotel. c1860. Stucco with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and cellars. The north-west facade has 3 sill bands; the cornices of the ground-floor windows are extended as a band, and there is a deeply-projecting bracketed timber eaves cornice. The windows have segmental heads and sashes which are divided into large square panes. Those to No.7 also have margin panes. The facades of Nos 5 and 6 form a mirrored symmetrical composition of 2-3-2 windows. At ground and first floor level the paired windows to the outer bays have surrounds which project forwards under a cornice. The 3 central windows on the 1st floor have semicircular heads. At ground floor level these 3 central bays have doorways to each side of a central window, which forms part of No.6. The recessed doors have 2 over 3 panels and the plain overlights have segmental heads. No.7, at the right, has 2 bays facing north-west. The right-hand window on the ground floor has a raised surround with cornice. Nos 5 and 6 each have 2 attic dormers, and No.7 has one dormer; all have segmental tops. Chimneys to left and right and between houses. The right-hand return wall forms the entrance facade to No.7. The eaves cornice rises as a broken pediment above the central part, which projects forwards slightly. The outer parts of the facade are blank except for 2 storey bands, a round-headed fixed-light window to the left on the ground floor, and a similar blind recess to the right. In the centre on the 1st floor there are 3 round-headed glazing bar sashes separated by pilasters and with moulded archivolts. At 2nd floor level there is a round-headed window with a cornice hood on console brackets, with a small inserted window to its left. Within the broken pediment there is a round-headed attic window. At ground-floor level there is a single-storey porch with a plain cornice which is moulded and dentilled above the doorway and which has a blocking course. The overlight has margin panes, and to each side of the doorway there are narrow round-headed sashed windows without glazing bars. The garden facades, facing south-east, have 3-window bows to both No.5 and No.6, and a canted bay window to No.7; all are of 2 storeys above a cellar. Nos 6 and 7 each have a round-topped dormer, and No.5 has 2 flat-roofed C20 dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: on the north-west side the deep basement area is enclosed by cast-iron railings on a low stone coping.

On the south-east side plain railings link Nos 5 and 6 to a low wall of squared limestone with sandstone copings supporting cast-iron railings and containing 2 pairs of ashlar gate piers with cast-iron gates. The piers are cylindrical above octagonal bases and have an annular groove below a cap which is carved to resemble a section of fluted Greek Doric column. Nos 5, 6 and 7 Driffield Terrace form, with Nos 1, 2 and 3 (qv), the two end blocks of an incomplete terrace developme@

Listing NGR: SE5927850958

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Legacy System number:: 463333
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.