Description

YORK

SE6051SW SOUTH ESPLANADE
1112-1/21/918 (North East side)
14/02/77 Friars Terrace Nos.1, 2 and 3 and
attached gates and railings

GV II

Includes: No.8 PECKITT STREET.
Terrace of 4 houses and attached garden gates and railings.
c1855. Red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with doorcases and
bracketed eaves cornice of timber; brick stacks to slate roof.
Gates and railings of cast-iron.
EXTERIOR: South Esplanade front, to river: 3 storeys 8
windows. Entrance to No.8 Peckitt Street in left return.
Doorcases are of sunk-panel pilasters with bracketed cornices
on bulbous carved consoles and doors of 4 panels beneath plain
overlights. Entrances alternate with 3-light canted bay
windows with prominent bracketed cornices and 2x4-pane centre
sashes between 2x2-pane side sashes. All other windows are
12-pane sashes with cambered heads, flat arches and painted
stone sills, those on first floor taller than those on second
floor. All windows have slender glazing bars. Below left end
window on first floor is stone tablet inscribed "FRIAR'S
TERRACE".
Peckitt Street front: 3 storeys and attic; 3-bay gable wall.
Entrance in centre, with blind windows to right bay of each
floor: window to left of door is 4-pane sash, and other
windows are 12-pane sashes. Details of all openings repeat
those on river front. Attic window is round-arched small-pane
sash with painted stone sill. Cornice from river front returns
beneath pedimented gable end.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings raised on retaining wall and
steps on north-east side of South Esplanade (qv) surviving
from C13 Franciscan Friary on same site. Railings to gardens
and gates are turned with spearhead finials and turned bulbous
standards on square bases.

Listing NGR: SE6034651450

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548091

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Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)