Number 78 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1990. A Victorian Town house. 3 related planning applications.
Number 78 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- tilted-plaster-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1990
- Type
- Town house
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Number 78 and Attached Railings, Bootham, YO30 7DF
- OS grid reference
- SE 598 524
- Coordinates
- 53.96492, -1.08947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 78 is a town house built in 1862, designed by the architect George Fowler Jones for himself. It is constructed of red brick with painted ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has two tall brick gable stacks and consists of three storeys, a basement, and attics.
The exterior includes a deep ashlar plinth with three basement windows below. The off-centre doorway features a six-panel door with an overlight and is flanked by ashlar pilasters within a segment-headed opening. To the left of the doorway, there is a pair of plain sash windows, and to the right, a single plain sash window, all set within segment-headed openings. These openings are connected by a moulded ashlar impost band. Above the doorway, there is a deeply-moulded sill band that links three plain segment-headed sashes. Further up, another bracketed ashlar sill band connects three smaller plain sashes with segment heads. The building is topped with an elaborate bracketed eaves cornice and two small segment-topped dormers with plain sashes.
The steps leading to the entrance are flanked by spearhead railings that continue along the street front. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Number 78 and Attached Railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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