Description

YORK

SE6051SW SKELDERGATE
1112-1/21/915 (South West side)
Building attached to south-west
corner of Lady Anne Middleton's
Hotel

GV II

Organ manufactory, now part of hotel. c1880; altered early
C20, renovated c1989. Front of red brick in Flemish bond, with
bands and dressings of cream or black brick; right side and
rear of mottled red brick in variant of English garden-wall
bond. Slate roof, gabled to front with timber valance,
bargeboards and finial.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey front. Inserted C20 door in left return.
Ground floor of main front has two lancet windows with
decorative glazing and a stone sill. Pointed window arches,
3-course sill band and 1-course impost band of contrasting
brick. Right window blind. First floor window is of tripled
lancets with bordered decorative glazing and stone sills on
quarter round moulded sill blocks. Other detailing as for
ground floor windows. In attic, cross-glazed oculus in
contrasting brick surround. Contrasting brick frieze and
console cornice to gable end. To left of first floor windows,
rectangular plate to tie rod, visible within building.
INTERIOR: windows incorporate stained glass panels. Building
roofed on 2 king post trusses with single side purlins, partly
carried on spurs, partly trenched-in.
HISTORICAL NOTE: building continued in use as an
organ-builder's workshop, occupied by Walter Hopkins, until
1921, when the premises were sold. A notice advertising the
sale on 21 July 1921, of "valuable Organ Builder's Stock in
Trade", which included a steam engine, displayed in the
upstairs room at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SE6019551393

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548081

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