Description

YORK

SE6052SW CHAPTER HOUSE STREET
1112-1/13/159 (North West side)
14/06/54 Nos.4 AND 6

GV II

Formerly known as: Ogleforth Cottage and No.14 CHAPTER HOUSE
STREET.
Pair of houses. Early C19 conversion of earlier building.
Painted brick, left side rendered; timber guttering on paired
modillions; pantile roof with brick coping, kneelers and
stacks: orange brick extension to No.6 in English garden-wall,
partly painted, pantile roof and brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 6-window front. Coved segmental carriage
arch with concave jambs closed by double gates of sunk
panelling, ramped-up at outer ends. Front doors are of 6
raised and fielded panels deeply recessed beneath radial
fanlights in round-arched openings. No.4 has 16-pane sashes on
first and second floors, 12-pane sash over door: No.6 has
16-pane sash to left of door, with panelled shutters, two
12-pane sashes on first floor, and one 12-pane sash over arch.
All windows have painted sills and cambered brick arches.
Rear: 2 storeys and attics, with 2-storey gable wall of
extension to left. Carriage arch has plain timber lintel. No.4
has 6-panel door, 16-pane sash to left, 2x6-pane Yorkshire
sash to right, 2-light casement further left: on first floor,
narrow 12-pane staircase sash between later 12-pane sash to
left and unequal 15-pane sash to right.
No.6 has 12-pane sash on ground floor to left of arch, 16-pane
sash above: extension has 16-pane sash on ground floor,
12-pane sash on first floor, both with painted brick arches
and painted sills. Attic windows are raking dormers with
2-light Yorkshire sashes, those to No.4 with unequal lights,
to No.6 with square lattice glazing. Left return has raised
band at eaves level and date 17?? formed by tie rod ends.
INTERIOR: of No.4. Ground floor: stone-flagged entrance hall;
open string staircase with stick balusters, shaped treadends
and plain handrail ramped-up to turned newels between ground
and first floors: reeded cornice. Left front room has marble
fireplace between round-headed alcoves; at rear, wide
segment-arched alcove flanked by cupboards in reeded
architraves with angle blocks: similar architrave to door:
reeded cornice. Right front room has tiered cupboards with
moulded panel doors on vestigial H-hinges. First floor:
landing has reeded cornice. Left front room has marble
fireplace with round-headed grate, reeded cornice and reeded
architrave with angle blocks. Right front room has fireplace
with panelled jambs, angle roundels, plain shelf and
replacement round-headed grate. Right rear room has same
fireplace and retains original basket grate. Attic has two
plain fireplaces, one with original basket grate, one boarded.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 115).

Listing NGR: SE6043552264

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550449

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