Description

YORK

SE5951NE ST MARTIN'S LANE
1112-1/15/947 (West side)
Nos.2, 2A AND 3-7 (Consecutive)
and attached boundary stone

GV II

Terrace of 7 houses. Mid C19; Nos 2 and 2A modernised 1991.
MATERIALS: orange-red brick in Flemish bond at front and right
side, with bands and dressings of cream brick, some painted;
cream brick dentils to moulded timber eaves cornice
interrupted by stone lintels of 2nd floor windows; left side
rendered, rear of mottled brown brick in English garden wall
bond. Slate roof with stone coped brick gables, brick kneelers
and polychrome brick cornice stacks, one rebuilt.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey front with 3 first floor windows to Nos 2
and 2A, 2 windows to remaining houses. Nos 2 and 2A have
4-panel doors beneath plain fanlights, approached by steps,
recessed in keyed round-arched doorways, between paired
round-arched windows. 4-panel doors with divided overlights to
remaining houses are paired, except that to No.5, with single
ground floor window to side; all openings have shouldered
heads beneath keyed flat arches of rubbed brick. First floor
windows to all houses have shouldered heads beneath keyed flat
arches of rubbed brick. Second floor windows are squat with
lintels. All windows are 4-pane sashes, except those to first
floor of No.6, which are C20 replacements, and all have stone
sills, those on ground floor moulded, those on first and
second floors shaped. All openings are stop chamfered. Sill
band of contrasting brick on each floor, and similar impost
bands to ground and first floors, those to Nos 2 and 2A rising
over round-arched window and door openings. First and second
floor bands return on right gable wall. Each house has
bootscraper niche beside the front steps.
Towards the left end of the terrace is a reset parish boundary
stone inscribed: "BOUNDS OF/ BISHOPHILL/ 17 JUNr 68".
Rear: long timber lintel on ground floor of No.2A underbuilt
with inserted sash window. All original windows are 4-pane
sashes with cambered heads and flat arches, and stone sills,
some painted.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Terrace occupies an important position overlooking the
churchyard of St Martin-cum-Gregory, Micklegate (qv).

Listing NGR: SE5997951609

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548215

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)