Description

YORK

SE5951NE TANNER ROW
1112-1/15/1060 (South side)
24/06/83 No.37
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
TANNER ROW
No.37
British Rail Eastern Regional
Headquaters)

GV II

Hotel, with basement area railings attached at front; now
offices. c1850, with C20 alteration. Red brick in Flemish bond
with painted stone doorcase and dressings; boldly projecting
timber cornice on modillion consoles, returned at left end;
double span roof of slate, hipped at left end, with brick
stacks. Railings of painted cast-iron on stone plinth.
EXTERIOR: basement and 4 storeys; 9-window front. Basement
windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills and plain
impost band stepped and chamfered over windowheads to form
lintels. Central portico of detached rusticated Tuscan columns
surmounted by balcony balustrade of bulbous balusters: double
doors each of 3 raised and fielded panels under plain fanlight
in round-arched doorcase of alternately long and short
voussoirs. On ground floor, windows are 4-pane sashes over
moulded sill band; on first floor, of 3 lights with centre
casements and brick sills; on second and third floors, 12-pane
sashes with slender glazing bars, squatter on third floor,
those on second floor over plain sill band and on third floor
over moulded sill band. All windows have flat arches of gauged
brick. On first floor, cantilevered balcony with moulded arris
survives, without balustrade. Rear: at right angles to front
range, 1-storey service wing with three 16-pane sash windows
with stone sills and flat arches of brick.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front railings and standards on low
plinth are turned, railings with conical tips, standards with
acanthus bud finials.
Building was originally 'The George Hotel', latterly 'The
North Eastern'.
(Murray H: Nathaniel Whittock's Bird's-eye View of the City of
York in 1850: York: 1988-: 43).

Listing NGR: SE5992251708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547984

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