Description

YORK

SE6052SW MINSTER YARD
1112-1/27/712 (South West side)
14/06/54 Nos.8 AND 9
Minster Song School (part)

GV II

Formerly known as: The Minster Chamber MINSTER YARD.
Pair of houses, now part of school. 1837 with later alteration
and extension. By JP Pritchett for the Dean and Chapter:
staircase ironwork by the Walker Foundry. Limestone ashlar
with extensions of orange-grey brick and slate roofs: ashlar
octagonal stacks, tripled at right gable end, with moulded
caps: brick stacks at rear.
STYLE: Gothick.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; 7-bay front terminating in
embattled octagonal turrets. Centre bay is gabled and flanked
by 2-stage buttresses. Cellar openings in moulded and
chamfered plinth. Centre left and right bays have doorways
with 4-centred heads and plain board doors with overlights of
paired cinquefoiled lights. All ground floor windows are
square-headed with sloped sills, and of 3 cinquefoiled lights.
First floor centre window is of two tiers of 3 cinquefoiled
lights in traceried 2-centred head. Other first floor windows
similar to those on ground floor, but of 2 lights. All
openings are double hollow chamfered and have coved hoodmoulds
with return stops. Coved string courses at first floor and
eaves levels encircle turrets and return to left and right.
Embattled parapet with moulded coping. Left and right returns:
ground and first floor windows correspond with those on front.
Right return has 3-light plain window to cellar. Attics have
2-centred window openings, with paired pointed lights in left
return, single light beneath coved hood in right return.
INTERIORS: staircase in No.8 has cast-iron balustrade of
traceried panels: in No.9 balustrade of vine scrolls. Both
houses retain 'Gothick'-style fireplaces, with castellated
surrounds, tracery panelled jambs or quatrefoiled friezes.
Several plaster cornices and ceilings survive, including
entrance passage and hall in No.9.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 165).

Listing NGR: SE6034252104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26681818

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