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

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