Description

YORK

SE6051NE ST SAVIOUR'S PLACE
1112-1/17/981 (South side)
14/06/54 Peaseholme House

GV II*

House, now offices. 1752, restored 1975. Probably by John Carr
for Robert Heworth; restored for York Civic Trust.
MATERIALS: front of orange brick in Flemish bond, with quoins
and dressings of stone; doorcase of painted stone; rear and
returns of buff brick in English garden-wall bond. Timber
cornice and brick stacks to hipped tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; 5-bay quoined front. Flight
of steps to front door of 8 raised and fielded panels in
doorcase of engaged Ionic columns supporting entablature and
reconstructed pediment. Windows to basement, ground and first
floors are 12-pane sashes, on second floor squat 6-pane
sashes, those on ground, first and second floors with sill
bands. All have flat arches of gauged brick with stone
keyblocks. Raised bands to ground and first floors. Prominent
dentil and modillion cornice returned on left side. Rear:
Venetian staircase window with radial-glazed central sash in
round arch flanked by narrow sashes with stone lintels. Other
windows correspond to those on front, with gauged brick arches
without keyblocks. Broad brick band to each floor, and to
eaves beneath plain cornice on brackets. Right return: two
levels of tall unequal sash windows towards rear.
INTERIOR: ground floor: entrance hall has eared doorcases with
dentilled cornices; walls covered in plain sunk panelling with
moulded cornice; plain stone fireplace. Front room to left
fitted with fine plaster ceiling removed from Bishophill
House, Nos 11 & 13 Bishophill Senior (qv). Fluted Ionic screen
with bayleaf frieze and entablature leads to stairhall.
Staircase with open string, turned balusters and serpentine
handrail, wreathed at foot around bulbous newel rises to first
floor in open well fitted with moulded dado rail. Staircase
window of fluted Doric pilasters and entablature with dentil
cornice. Most rooms retain moulded dado rails, cornices and
chimneypieces.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 212).

Listing NGR: SE6068151948

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Peaseholme House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549469

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas