Description

YORK

SE6051NE WALMGATE
1112-1/17/1147 (North East side)
14/06/54 No.2
Dorothy Wilson's Hospital and
attached cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
WALMGATE
No.2
Dorothy Wilson's Hospital &
Schoolmaster's House in yard at rear)

GV II

Almshouse and schoolroom with schoolmaster's house attached to
rear. Almshouse 1765, extensively rebuilt 1812; schoolmaster's
house 1805: buildings modernised 1958. For the Trustees of the
Dorothy Wilson Charity.
MATERIALS: almshouse front and left return of orange brick in
Flemish bond on painted stone plinth, rear of brown-cream
mottled brick in English garden-wall bond; raised chamfered
quoins to front and left return; two cornices and dressings of
painted stone; timber doorcase; moulded cornice to hipped
slate roof with corner scrolls and brick stacks.
Schoolmaster's house of grey-cream brick, Flemish bond at
front, English garden-wall bond at rear; slate roof with
skylight and brick stack.
EXTERIOR: ALMSHOUSE: 2 storeys and attic; 5-bay front, 3
centre bays breaking forward: attached 1-storey wall to right
with panelled side door beneath round arch of voussoirs on
moulded imposts. Centre bay openings on ground floor recessed
beneath arcaded arches of voussoirs on impost band: doorcase
of sunk-panel pilasters with moulded imposts and cornice
contains 6-panel door and radial fanlight recessed in
round-arched architrave. Ground and first floor windows are
16-pane sashes with keyed arches of voussoirs and painted
stone sills. Above door, blind niche beneath round arch of
voussoirs on moulded imposts contains inscription recording
laying of 1812 foundation stone. Attic windows, above massive
moulded cornice returned across left front, are 16-pane sashes
with flat arches of rubbed brick: in centre, reset panel
records foundation in 1719 of Dorothy Wilson's Charity for the
"Maintenance of ten poor Women as also for the instruction in
English, Reading, Writing and Clothing of twenty poor Boys for
ever". 3-bay left return has windows similar to those on main
front, one blind, and inverted bell rainwater head.
Rear: 3 storeys, 6 bays; left half covered by 1-storey, 3-bay
projecting schoolroom: schoolmaster's house projects to right.
Between schoolroom and house, steps with serpentine handrail
on square section balusters and turned standard lead to glazed
and panelled door with overlight beneath pent porch.
Schoolroom has unequal 20-pane sash windows with painted stone

sills and channelled wedge lintels. Almshouse windows are
16-pane sashes beneath segmental arches on first floor,
cambered arches on second floor. Radial-glazed staircase
window has painted keyed round arch of voussoirs on imposts
and painted stone sill. Tall extruded stack in right end bay.
Timber guttering on paired modillions, with left of centre
inverted bell rainwater head.
SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE: 2 storeys, 3 bays, with full-height
added porch in centre. 6-panel front door beneath divided
overlight within panelled porch: small 4-pane sash window with
segmental arch on first floor. 12-pane sash to right of porch,
blocked window opening to left, and unequal 9-pane sashes on
first floor have flat arches. All windows have painted stone
sills. Rear: 2 storeys, 2 windows: windows repeat those on
front with addition of 6-pane ground floor window. 3 circular
tie rod plates.
INTERIOR: ALMSHOUSE: rebuilt staircase reuses cast-iron stick
balusters and ramped-up moulded handrail. Former Committee
Room at rear of first floor, entered through round arch on
sunk-panel pilasters with moulded imposts, now subdivided,
retains reeded cornice with roundels and plain fireplace and
shelf. A number of panelled room and cupboard doors survive
throughout the building.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 96).

Listing NGR: SE6061351688

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Dorothy Wilson's Hospital at Wikipedia
• Dorothy Wilson's Hospital at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q115907620 Q26547914

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