Description

YORK

SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE
1112-1/17/983 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.14
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SAVIOURGATE
No.14
and Lady Hewley's Almshouses
(Nos.1-11 consec & No.8A))

GV II

Includes: Lady Hewley's Almshouses No.1 ST SAVIOURGATE.
Warden's house to almshouses; attached gates, gate piers and
railings forming entrance and south-western boundary to
gardens surrounding the almshouses (qv). 1840, with C20
extension. By JB Pritchett for the Trustees of Lady Hewley's
Charity. House of tooled ashlar on ashlar plinth; slate roof
with moulded stone coping and shaped kneelers. Cast-iron gates
and railings; stone gate piers.
EXTERIOR: house front 2 storeys, 3 bays, centre bay gabled;
1-storey extension to right. Centre bay has board double doors
and 2-light window with pointed 6- on 4-pane hung sashes on
first floor, both in openings with 4-centred heads. Windows on
both floors of flanking bays are mullioned and square-headed
with paired 8-pane sashes, those on ground floor taller. All
openings are double chamfered and have coved hoodmoulds.
Chamfered eaves course.
Left return to St Saviourgate: 2-storey gable wall. Ground
floor window as on main front. First floor opening blocked by
reset tablet recording original foundation of Lady Hewley's
Hospital in Tanner Row in 1700. Below is inscribed stone
recording rebuilding of the Hospital in 1840.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate piers approximately 1.5 metres high,
with domed heads, flank double gates of square section
railings with Tudor flower finials. Railings of similar design
raised on low wall with chamfered coping.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 96).

Listing NGR: SE6061251914

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lady Hewley's Almshouses at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q115917505 Q26548158

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