Description

YORK

SE6052SW GILLYGATE
1112-1/13/370 (South East side)
14/06/54 Nos.26 AND 28

GV II*

Two houses, now doctors' surgery and shop. Built in 1769 by
Robert Clough. Altered in early C19 and C20. Brick in Flemish
bond with some painted stone dressings. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic and 7 bays. The facade has a
plinth, a storey band above the ground floor, and a dentilled
modillion gutter cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes
(the glazing bars a C20 restoration) with rubbed brick flat
arches and projecting sills. The ground-floor windows have
panelled external shutters. There are 4 flat-roofed attic
dormers. The ground floor of No.26 (the 2 right-hand bays)
contains a C19 shopfront with timber pilasters and fascia, and
a doorway recessed between 2 plate-glass windows. To its left
the 5th bay contains an early C19 Tuscan pilaster doorcase
with entablature and cornice hood, an overlight with glazing
bars, and a door with 6 flush panels. The 2nd bay contains an
original doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns, triglyph frieze
blocks, fanlight, and open dentilled pediment. To the right of
the doorway is a snuffer. At the right of the facade there is
a rainwater downpipe with a lead hopper dated '1770'. Chimneys
in front of ridge to left and right and near centre.
INTERIOR: No.26 was recorded by RCHM as containing an original
staircase and ceiling cornices. No.28 is said to have rococo
plasterwork in a ground-floor room and in the saloon above,
and a roundel with Gothic cusping above the staircase. The
staircase is said to have turned balusters with large plain
umbrella-shaped knops. Some original fireplaces and some later
ones inserted by Thomas Wolstenholme.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-:
74).

Listing NGR: SE6016452331

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549902

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