Description

YORK

SE6051NW NEW STREET
1112-1/28/799 (South East side)
14/06/54 Nos.3-9 (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW STREET
Nos.3-9 (Odd)
Cumberland Row)

II*

Formerly known as: Nos.3-6 NEW STREET.
Terrace of 4 town houses; now offices. 1746, with later C18
extension to No.9, and early C19 and C20 alterations.
Orange-red brick in Flemish bond with timber cornice; right
return faced with red brick in stretcher bond. M-shaped slate
roof with brick stacks and 4 flat topped dormers, 3 with
2-light 6-pane horizontal sliding sashes.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attics; 12-window front, 3
windows to each house. Basement openings blocked. Each house
has 4- or 6-panel door and divided overlight in panelled
doorcase of plain pilasters with moulded imposts, plain
friezes and moulded cornices. Only No.9 retains unaltered
12-pane sashes on ground floor: others are 1-pane sashes or
top-hung windows. All have painted stone sills, and all except
No.3 retain panelled shutters. First and second floor windows
are 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills. Ground and first
floor windows have flat arches of gauged brick with painted
stone keyblocks, those over doorways fasciated. 4-course brick
bands to first and second floors. Moulded eaves cornice on
shaped brackets and inverted bell rainwater head dated 1784 at
left of No.3. Left return: 3 storeys. 4-pane sashes with stone
sills and keyed flat arches of rubbed brick to each floor.
Shaped gable with brick dentilled coping. Right return: one
round-headed window, one radial glazed, between first and
second floors: 3 windows to attic. Brick coping masks roof
valley.
INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original staircases to
each house, those to Nos 5 & 7 top lit, each with 2 turned
balusters with knops per tread, moulded and ramped handrails,
plus panelled dados on walls.
No.3 has front ground floor panelled room, with doorcase and
dentilled cornice. First floor has panelled room with
fireplace with pedimented overmantel at front, at rear, room
with one panelled wall and fireplace with pedimented
overmantel, and pedimented doorcases. Second floor has
original stone fireplaces.
No.5 has fully panelled ground-floor room with C19 fireplace
and original cupboard with rounded back and shaped shelves.
First-floor front room also panelled, though now partitioned,
with blocked fireplaces.
No.7 has panelled ground-floor front room with fireplace and

overmantel topped with pulvinated frieze, and round topped
cupboard to right. First-floor front room, fully panelled with
doorcases and fireplace with swan-necked broken pedimented
overmantel. Rear room has one panelled wall with fireplace and
overmantel with lugged architrave.
No.9 refitted early C19 with contemporary fireplaces to ground
and first floors. Second floor has original doorcases. Front
room has reused fireplace with pedimented overmantel, back
room has original stone fireplace with trefoil motifs.
Staircase window on second floor has painted glass probably by
William Peckitt and floral panel probably by Henry Gyles.
All houses have original doors and fireplaces to attic. Roof
of principal rafters with staggered butt purlins.
Terrace originally consisted of 6 houses; end houses rebuilt
in 1958-9.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 167-70).

Listing NGR: SE6024651882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549632

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover