12, Minster Yard York, England
Listed Building Data
12, Minster Yard has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1257262
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 1 July 1968
- Name
- 12, MINSTER YARD
- Location
- 12, MINSTER YARD
- District
- York
- Grid Reference
- SE 60299 52118
- Easting
- 460299.0000
- Northing
- 452118.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
YORK
SE6052SW MINSTER YARD 1112-1/27/714 (South West side) 01/07/68 No.12
GV II
Offices. c1840, incorporating late C18 structure. By JB Pritchett for the Dean and Chapter. Limestone ashlar fronts, rear of squared limestone and orange-brown brick; wing of squared limestone; pantile roofs, hipped to wing. STYLE: Gothick. EXTERIOR: 3-storey gabled front to Minster Yard, 2-window return front to right. High moulded plinth. Entrance in right return. Minster Yard front has 3-light window in square-headed surround on ground floor: first floor has embattled 3-light oriel, second floor paired lancets in 2-centred head. Moulded gable coping continues on plain parapet over right return. Right return: glazed and panelled door with 4-centred head. Windows are of paired 4-centred lights, in square-headed surrounds on ground and second floors, 4-centred on first floor. Openings and mullions all hollow chamfered: all windows have hoodmoulds, returned on second floor to form eaves string beneath plain parapet. Windows are tall hung sashes. INTERIOR: re-used staircase rising to second floor has open string, turned balusters, square newels and plain handrail. Ground floor: front room has fireplace with sunk-panel jambs enriched with wheatear drops and dentilled shelf beneath later shelf. Rear room has alcove fitted with built-in shelving, supported in part on colonnade of squat columns. First floor: rear room retains fireplace with dentilled shelf. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 166).
Listing NGR: SE6029952118
