6, St Sampsons Square is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1971. A C18 House.
6, St Sampsons Square
- WRENN ID
- first-wall-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6, St Sampsons Square, YO1 8RN
- OS grid reference
- SE 603 519
- Coordinates
- 53.95988, -1.08221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 St Sampson's Square is a house that has been incorporated into a department store. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone later alterations, including a 20th-century shopfront. The building is constructed of rendered brick that has been colour-washed, featuring a timber shopfront and an eaves cornice, topped with a slate roof.
The exterior consists of three storeys with a three-window front. The shopfront includes a six-panel passage door on the left side. The windows are unequal 15-pane sashes on the first floor and unequal 9-pane sashes on the second floor, all framed in moulded surrounds with narrow sills. A bold modillion eaves cornice is present, with a fluted bowl rainwater head located at the left end.
The interior is not accessible, but records indicate it features an open string staircase with turned balusters, and the top flight has re-used balusters from around 1700. The first-floor room includes fluted architraves and angle roundels, while the second floor contains a moulded stone fireplace surround. This house was originally part of the Golden Lyon Inn, located at No. 5 St Sampson's Square.
Local climate
6, St Sampsons Square receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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