Description

YORK

SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE
1112-1/17/984 (South East side)
14/06/54 Lady Hewley's Almshouses Nos.2-10
(consec) and No.8A
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SAVIOURGATE
No.14
and Lady Hewley's Almshouses
Nos.1-11 (consec) & No.8A)

GV II

Range of ten almshouses. 1840, with C20 modernisation. By JB
Pritchett for the Trustees of Lady Hewley's Charity. Tooled
ashlar; slate roofs with moulded stone copings and shaped
kneelers, and brick stacks: rear of orange-red brick in
stretcher bond, raised in red brick.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; 9-window front, flanked by
cross-gabled bays. Main front has 3 square-headed doorways
with paired board doors in 4-centred openings. 2-light cellar
openings beneath iron grilles under ground floor windows.
Windows on both floors of main front are square-headed, of 2
mullioned lights with 8-pane sashes, those on ground floor
taller. Left cross-wing has doorway on ground floor, and
window of 2 pointed lights with 6- on 4-pane hung sashes in
4-centred head on first floor. Right cross-wing has
square-headed window of paired 8-pane sashes in 4-centred
opening on ground floor: first floor window the same as in
left cross-wing. All openings are double chamfered and have
coved hoodmoulds. Chamfered eaves course beneath moulded
guttering to main front. Left return: 2-storey gable wall.
Square-headed 3-light mullion window on ground floor,
4-centred window of 2 pointed lights on first floor. Right
return: 2-storey 5-window front. Details as for main front
with two doorways and 3 windows on ground floor.
INTERIOR: entrance lobbies divided by movable panelled
partitions. Kitchen ranges said to survive behind board
blocking beneath moulded mantelshelves. First floor rooms
retain plain fireplaces, now blocked. No.8A was formerly the
Almshouse chapel.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 96).

Listing NGR: SE6064551884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lady Hewley's Almshouses at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26548165

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