Description

YORK

SE5952NW THE AVENUE
1112-1/6/1065 (North West side)
Nos.1-9 (Consecutive)

II

Terrace of 9 houses, one now guest house, some flats. 1880-90;
later alterations. By WG and A Penty.
MATERIALS: ground floor at front is of red brick in English
garden-wall bond, first floor tile hung, with canted bays
white-washed and rough cast; rear of buff brick in English
garden-wall bond. Front roof of tile, rear of slate, with flat
dormers and brick stacks with deep stepped cornices. Eaves at
front are sprocketed and overhang on shaped timber brackets;
gables have fish-scale tiles in the apex and narrow plain
bargeboards. Original cast-iron guttering carried on cast-iron
brackets.
STYLE: Domestic Revival.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 19 bays. Each house has 2-bay
front, one bay of each is treated as a 2-storey canted bay,
all except in Nos 4, 5 and 6 gabled with the adjacent bay and
breaking slightly forward: No.5 is double fronted, triple
gabled and projects to form centrepiece. Original front doors
are glazed in small panes and panelled, and set beneath
small-pane overlights in part glazed screens. Porches are
either segmental hoods on carved brackets or pent and
cantilevered on shaped braces. Doors to Nos 1 and 9 are in
right and left returns respectively and have flat canopy
porches on shaped braces. Ground and first floor windows in
canted bays are of 5 lights with additional half lights at
each end, beneath moulded cornices. Nos 1 and 9 have
additional 4-light ground floor windows beneath segmental
arches: first floor windows over these are of 4 lights, over
doors of 2 lights. Original ground floor windows are plain
casements with 4-pane top-hung lights above a transom: first
floor windows are of 2 tiers of small 4-pane casements. Gabled
attics have 3-light 8-pane casement windows; flat dormers
6-pane casement windows of 2 or 3 lights. Nos 6 and 7 only
have some replacement windows.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
An extremely well preserved and early example of the Domestic
Revival style, applied to a late Victorian terrace by an
important local firm of architects.

Listing NGR: SE5942252796

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547988

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