Description

YORK

SE5951SE SOUTH PARADE
1112-1/20/921 (North East side)
14/06/54 Nos.3-20 (Consecutive)

II

Includes: No.43 BLOSSOM STREET.
Terrace of houses, now 17 houses, a shop, and offices. 1825-8
with some C20 alterations. Probably built by Thomas Rayson
senior, bricklayer. Brick in Flemish bond with painted stone
or stucco dressings. Slate roof, hipped at left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys above cellars. Each house 2 bays with
glazing bar sash windows which have painted rusticated lintels
with false keystones. No.19 has a small flat-roofed attic
dormer. At the left-hand end of the terrace a C20 shopfront
and doorways occupy the ground floor of No.43 Blossom Street
and the former Nos 1 and 2 South Parade (now part of No.43
Blossom Street). The shopfront returns to also occupy the
ground floor of the 3 bays which face Blossom Street. The
remaining houses each have a tripartite bowed glazing bar sash
at the right on the ground floor and a doorway at the left
with a doorcase which has engaged reeded columns, a frieze
with raised mouldings, panelled reveals, a door of 6 panels,
and an overlight with glazing bars in a diagonal pattern. No 4
has French doors to the cellar, and a C20 lean-to porch over
the cellar doorway. No.6 has a glazed window replacing the
cellar door. No.7 has a casement window with glazing bars
lighting the cellar. No.8 has a C20 cellar window and glazed
door. Nos 9, 10 and 11, 15, 16, 17 and 19 have 6-panel cellar
doors. No.14 has a C20 concrete platform in front of the
cellar window. The houses have timber gutters carried on
rectangular brackets except for Nos 4, 5, 6 and 7, which have
plastic gutters. Ridge chimneys to left and right of the
former No.2, and to right of Nos 3-20.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
No.43 Blossom Street was first listed 01/07/68.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 129).

Listing NGR: SE5965951317

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548096

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)