Description

YORK

SE6051NE WALMGATE
1112-1/17/1163 (North East side)
19/08/71 Nos.50-58 (Even)
Maxwell's Hotel (Nos.50, 52 and 54)
(Formerly Listed as:
WALMGATE
Nos.52-58 (Even))

GV II

Four houses; now hotel with cafe, and amusement arcade. Early
C19, with later C19 alteration, and extension to No.54. No.50
retains original shopfront, reglazed; others altered, that to
No.58 late C19.
MATERIALS: No.50 rendered at front with eaves cornice of brick
dentils; remainder of brown brick in Flemish bond with
modillion eaves cornice of timber; shopfronts of timber;
pantile roofs with brick stacks. Extension to No.54 of
pink-cream mottled brick in English garden-wall bond with
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 5-window front. Carriage arch with timber
lintel beneath No.56. Hotel entrance in shopfront to Nos 52
and 54. Shopfront to No.50 has jambs of convex panelling with
roundels in the head, and glazed and beaded panel door to
right of shallow 3-light bow window over beaded panel riser.
No.58 has shopfront of panelled pilasters and modillion
cornice between terminal consoles carved with Prince of Wales'
feathers: glazed and panelled doors with overlights
incorporating same motif flank 3-light shop window with
colonnette mullions, over panelled riser. On first floor,
No.50 has 4-pane sash window with painted sill; Nos 52 and 54
have tripartite bow windows, that to No.54 later insertion,
with 8:12:8-pane sashes: No.56 has 4-pane sash with narrow
painted sill and flat arch of rubbed brick; No.58 has canted
bay window with 1-pane sash and dentilled cornice. Second
floor windows are altered sashes, all with painted sills.
Rear: No.52 has door of 6 raised and fielded panels, some
16-pane sash windows and radial-glazed staircase window
beneath round arch of orange brick. 2-storey 5-bay wing to
No.54, with narrow 1-pane or 4-pane sash windows with stone
sills and heavy lintels.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 237).

Listing NGR: SE6074051610

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547862

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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