Design Statement May 2020 7 Castlegate, Outrigger Demolition. Rev: *
Contents.
1.0 About us
2.0 Site Location
3.0 Site Context
4.0 Existing Site Constraints
5.0 Property Listing
6.0 Existing Plans
7. 0 Proposed Plans
Contact Details Architect: ArkleBoyce Architects Ltd. Studio 9 Matthew Murray House 97 Water Lane Leeds LS11 5QN T +44 (0) 113 322 9491 Status Planning Application Date 07.05.21 ArkleBoyce Architects Ltd. Drawn JA 21 Woodstock Street Checked GB Mayfair Revision * London W1C 2AP T +44 (0)203 917 7869
Design Report - Castlegate York Clayworth Cottage Shepherds Bush
Bishops Lodge Great Guilford Street Great Guilford Street Kensington Garden Square 1.0 About us.
We are a passionately design-led, client-centred studio. We bring together our client’s personal vision, the immediate and wider context, and our skill, imagination and experience to create individual buildings of beauty, quality and effortless function.
Getting the most from buildings is in the DNA of the company. From the outset we have aimed to creatively resolve issues where occupiers, developers, investors and statutory regulator’s respective views meet.
We believe that good design is fundamental to each project, and that it is not just in the architecture of the building and the selection and detailing the materials, but is in the efficiency of the space, the ease of construction and in the added value that it can bring.
Spenfield House Grade II* Listed Residential Conversion and new build in Leeds Extension to Grade II Listed Dwelling
Design Report - Castlegate York 2.0 Site Location.
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The property is located within the retail core of York City Centre, close to car parks, visitor attractions such as Cliffords Tower, the Jorvik Centre and Castle Museum. Castlegate provides an eclectic mix of independent retailers, restaurants and bars.
The host property is within Yorks Central Historic Core Conservation Area. Castlegate as its name implies was and is the narrow thoroughfare leading to York Castle and where, as in other parts of the city, contrasting periods of architecture stand in some harmony shoulder to shoulder.
The Georgian architect John Carr strongly influenced the style of Castlegate with his two notable Georgian buildings. Castlegate House, which dates from 1759, was built for the City Recorder, Peter Johnson, having a Masonic Temple extension added in 1920, and, opposite this, Fairfax House, thought to be the finest Georgian town house in England, dating from 1755, was created as a dowry for Viscount Fairfax’s only surviving child, Anne.
The 7 Castlegate is Grade II Listed and the listing is set out below:
YORK SE6051NW CASTLEGATE 1112-1/28/136 (North East side) 01/07/68 No.7 GV II House. Late C18, with later alterations and mid C19 shopfront. For George Ewbank, chemist. Orange-grey mottled brick, in Flemish bond at front, English garden wall bond at rear; timber shopfront and moulded console cornice to eaves: slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front. Shopfront of plain pilasters and frieze Site location aerial image between bulbous consoles, beneath flat cornice: half-canted plate glass shop window to left of glazed shop door with overlight. At right end of shopfront is wide passage door of 4 incised panels beneath overlight. On first floor, 3-light canted bay with 1-pane sashes. On second floor, two 12- pane sashes with painted stone sills, slender glazing bars and flat arches. Rainwater head with initials GE and date 1789.
INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 111). Listing NGR: SE6039151649 River Ouse 7 Castlegate Coppergate shopping centre B1227 Clifford Tower
Design Report - Castlegate York 3.0 Site Context.
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7 Castlegate comprises a grade 2 listed city centre property. On the ground floor there is a self contained unit. The rear of the unit has recently erected additions forming storage.
The upper two floors provide office accommodation. This is accessed independently via a separate entrance via a communal yard, with an external staircase to the first floor which detracts from the visual amenity of the space. The neighbouring site 9 Castlegate has extended and infilled it’s rear courtyard (Ref: 18/01053/FUL).
The design team had an approved application for the internal reconfiguration to remove new additions to the original plan form (Ref: 20/01860 FUL & 20/01860 LBC).
This subsequent application seeks to;
• Demolish part of the rear outrigger that is a modern addition in context with the original building. This was deemed acceptable in the original pre- app feedback 20 00237 PRE APP.
7 Castlegate York
Site Plan Site location aerial image
Design Report - Castlegate York FUL constructed ref 18/01053/ extension approved and Note: recent side infill 9 Castlegate Burgsy’s Existing rooflight Blue Boar access Stair Existing to be partially demolished Ad-hoc rear extensions
Existing Site Massing
Design Report - Castlegate York 4.0 Existing Site Constraints.
1. Site Access Second floor The ground floor retail space is accessed via a the frontage to Castlegate. The first and second floor are accessed via a passageway to the side of the building and via an unsightly external staircase. The original internal staircase has been removed from ground to first to allow a large ground floor retail floorplate.
2. Existing Buildings
Office The host building comprises of a three storey Grade II listed building that is formed from brick under a pantile roof. To the rear is an outrigger of ground floor accommodation that is under utilised and forms storage for the ground floor retail. Windows are timber framed single glazed.
3. Parking
There is currently no parking provision. Office 4. Heritage
7 Castlegate is a Grade 2 Listed property of orange-grey mottled brick with slate roof and decorative C19 shopfront comprising; plain pilasters, frieze, consoles, cornice, half-canted plate glass window and glazed shop door with over-light.
Existing Retail Access to rear
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Design Report - Castlegate York Rear Outrigger View from alley to courtyard
Entry to office spaces Outrigger Three pane windows
Design Report - Castlegate York 5.0 Property Listing
Heritage As set out in the Listing description, 7 Castlegate is, for the most part, a handsome Grade 2 Listed property of orange-grey mottled brick with slate roof and decorative C19 shopfront comprising; plain pilasters, frieze, consoles, cornice, half-canted plate glass window and glazed shop door with over-light. To the rear of the building, the ‘host’ building retains its handsome proportions with two large, three pane, windows and assumed original rainwater head marked with initials GE and dated 1789. To the rear ground level however, a later (by others) ‘outrigger’ addition forming a single storey, ‘lean-to’ extension breaks with the (assumed) original floor plan of the late C18 house from the otherwise fine example of typical late C18 residential within the City of York causing not insignificant harm to this heritage asset.
Our proposal for this application are purely in relation to the part demolition of the rear outrigger to create a larger rear courtyard area.
The changes we seek shall improve the external programme of the building.
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S 9, St. Leonards Place, York, YO1 2ET Telephone: 01904 551550 PROPOSED HISTORIC CORE CONSERVATION AREA BOUNDARY Conservation Area No. 1 CENTRAL HISTORIC CORE
SCALE 1:3000 DRAWN BY PSL DATE 9/12/2011
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Town & Country Planning Act 1971 Town & Country Amenities Act 1974 CON 1A
Produced from the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office c Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. City of York Council LA 1000 20818
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6.0 Existing Plans.
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Existing Ground Floor Plan - 1:200 Scale @ A3 N
7.0 Proposed Plan.
GROUND FLOOR The ground floor outrigger which is not a historic element of the building shall partly demolished to allow for a larger exteral courtyard.
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