4, 6 and 8, Low Ousegate is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1997. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
4, 6 and 8, Low Ousegate
- WRENN ID
- third-mullion-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1997
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 4, 6 and 8, Low Ousegate, YO1 9QU
- OS grid reference
- SE 602 516
- Coordinates
- 53.95768, -1.08316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of houses with shops located at 4, 6, and 8 Low Ousegate, built between 1810 and 1820, featuring 20th-century shopfronts. The buildings are constructed from orange-brown brick in Flemish bond and have a timber cornice, topped with a shallow pitched slate roof and a truncated brick stack.
The exterior consists of a four-storey, four-bay front. The shopfront on the left is framed with plain pilasters and has a moulded cornice supported by thin brackets at the pilaster heads. It features glazed and panelled doors at each end, with a three-light window above a panelled stall riser. The shopfront on the right is made of aluminium with plate glazing.
All upper floor windows are one-pane sashes, except for two twelve-pane sashes on the second floor of the house to the right and two on the third floor, where the original unequal nine-pane sashes have been replaced with one-pane lower sashes. All windows have stone sills, some of which are painted or damaged, and feature flat arches made of orange rubbed and gauged brick. The moulded eaves cornice includes guttering. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
4, 6 and 8, Low Ousegate 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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