No 8 And Attached Walls, Gatepiers And Gate

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SO8454NE COLLEGE YARD 620-1/16/195 (West side) 22/05/54 No.8 and attached walls, gatepiers and gate (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE YARD No.8)

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House, now offices with attached wall, piers and gates. c1720-50, clearly later than No. 7 (qv). with later additions and alterations with walls re-using earlier, probably C13 material; renewed gates. Reddish-brown brick, stuccoed to front and to ground floor on left return, painted above, plain tile roof hipped at left and tall left end reddish-brown stack with renewed oversailing course; wall in coursed red and green sandstone. 3 storeys on half-basement, 5 first-floor windows. Plinth; first- and second-floor bands; moulded cornice, low coped parapet. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, those to first floor have thick glazing bars, all in shallow reveals. second floor has renewed casement windows. Attic has 3 box dormers with casement windows. Basement has blocked openings, 2 with grilles. Central entrance: 4 roll-edged steps to 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with 3-pane overlight, hood on corbels. Left return has 6/6 sash in plain reveals. Rear has 6/6 sash and dentil eaves. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery including original staircase. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: quadrant wall with chamfered copings abuts left return at rear for approximately 8 metres, to pair of gate piers with stepped ovolo-moulded angles and moulded cornice with urn finials, double plank gates between and further quadrant wall which abuts wall and railings to No.10 (qv). All the listed buildings in College Yard (qqv) form a good group and form part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv).

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