Description

YORK

SE6052SW MUSEUM STREET
1112-1/27/786 (North West side)
03/08/92 Nos.2 AND 4
and railings attached to front and
left side

GV II

Two houses with front area railings; now offices. 1851. By JB
and W Atkinson for Thos. Laycock, M.D. Buff-orange brick in
Flemish bond with porticos and dressings of sandstone ashlar;
brick stacks to flat roof, obscured by wrought-iron
balustrade. Cast-iron railings on stone plinth.
EXTERIOR: Museum Street front: 3 bays of 4 storeys and
basement, fourth bay of 3 storeys. Basement sash windows have
shaped lintels continued as moulded plinth band. Entrance to
No.2 in right end bay, within porch of plain antae and heavy
cornice. No.4 has distyle in antis portico, rising into first
floor as square bay window with clasping pilasters,
entablature and moulded cornice returned at each end. Portico
has single round-headed light to returns on each floor. First
floor bay has single tall 8-pane window in sunk-panelled
surround opening on to balcony with parapet of incised panels.
Both entrances are approached by flights of steps with square
section railings and flat handrail, swept round at foot; doors
are glazed and panelled, with overlights, in plain
architraves. Windows flanking portico project as shallow
2-storey square bays, with paired round-headed 8-pane sashes
on ground floor in pilaster and cornice architraves; similar
segment-headed windows on first floor. First floor window over
entrance to No.2 is 8-pane sash in eared architrave. All
second floor windows are segment-headed 12-pane sashes in
eared architraves with moulded sills on brackets. All third
floor windows are 6-pane sashes with segment-arched heads in
plain surrounds. Continuous moulded cornice to ground floor
openings; narrow sill band to first floor windows continues
across right end bay; moulded sill band to third floor windows
continues as plain cornice over right end bay. Dentilled and
moulded eaves cornice beneath open scrollwork parapet
balustrade between brick piers.
Library Square front: 4 storeys, 3 bays, on stepped plinth.
Ground and first floors break forward, centre bay projecting
further as 2-storey canted bay window. Bay window has single
8-pane sash on each floor. Window detailing repeats that of
main front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings raised on moulded plinth: those
on main front are turned with tapered finials; those to
Library Square front are square section with shaped finials,
and incorporate open scrolled panels topped with cone finials.

Listing NGR: SE6008752073

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548514

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