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Latitude: 53.9594 / 53°57'33"N
Longitude: -1.0825 / 1°4'57"W
OS Eastings: 460296
OS Northings: 451873
OS Grid: SE602518
Mapcode National: GBR NQWN.FD
Mapcode Global: WHFC3.BQRZ
Plus Code: 9C5WXW58+QX
Entry Name: Melrose House
Listing Date: 14 June 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256728
English Heritage Legacy ID: 464620
Also known as: 3 St Sampson's Square, York
ID on this website: 101256728
Location: York, North Yorkshire, YO1
County: York
Electoral Ward/Division: Guildhall
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: York
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: York St Helen Stonegate with St Martin Coney Street
Church of England Diocese: York
YORK
SE6051NW ST SAMPSON'S SQUARE
1112-1/28/969 (South West side)
14/06/54 No.3
Melrose House
GV II
House, now offices. Late C18 with C20 alteration and
shopfront. For Alderman Thomas Hartley.
MATERIALS: front of red brick in Flemish bond on painted stone
plinth; window arches of orange gauged brick, painted stone
sills and sill band; modillion eaves cornice and shopfront of
timber. Rear of pink-grey mottled brick in Flemish bond.
Pyramidal slate roof with truncated brick stack at apex.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 4-window front. Pedimented doorcase of
pilasters and entablature to left of shopfront; door of 6
raised and fielded panels beneath radial fanlight in
round-arched architrave. Shopfront framed in plain pilasters
with imposts beneath broad frieze and moulded cornice: central
glazed door and radial fanlight in round-arched architrave
recessed between shallow, square-paned bow windows, each
beneath square-paned overlights behind decorative grilles of
crossed bars. Upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes, those on
first floor taller, with sill band to first floor windows, and
sills to those on second floor. Rear: round-headed staircase
window to right of centre.
INTERIOR: partly boarded-in staircase with cantilevered stone
steps with curved treadends, concave sided stick balusters and
slender ramped-up handrail.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 206).
Listing NGR: SE6029651873
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