Description

YORK

SE6052SW PRECENTOR'S COURT
1112-1/27/873 (South side)
14/06/54 Nos.2, 3, 4 AND 4A

GV II*

Row of four houses. Early C18 with later fenestration.
MATERIALS: red brick in random bond, on high chamfered brick
plinth; moulded timber eaves band: tiled roof has half-hipped
dormers with 2-light casement windows and brick stacks, one
partly rendered, one rebuilt but reproducing the original
diagonal stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, semi-basement and attics; 13-bay front.
Semi-basement windows with timber lintels in plinth, most
either with iron grilles, one retaining wooden shutter. Nos 2
and 3 have doors of 3 bolection moulded panels; door to
passage giving access to Nos 4 and 4A is of 3 moulded panels.
All are approached by stone steps and those to No.3 and to
passage have 2-pane overlights. No.2 has 16-pane sash window
to left of door, 12-pane sashes to right and on first floor,
inserted unequal 6-pane sash at right of ground floor.
Remaining windows are mullioned and transomed casements: No.3
has two pairs of 2x6-pane windows on ground floor, and three
2x3-pane windows in original frames on first floor; No.4 has
two cross windows with square leaded lights in original frames
on both floors; No.4A has two 2x6-pane ground floor windows,
three 2x3-pane first floor windows. All windows had flat
arches of gauged brick, those on ground floor now rendered.
Ground floor windows are shuttered, those to Nos 2 and 3 flush
panelled, those to Nos 4 and 4A of 2 sunk panels. First floor
windows have brick sills. 3-course stepped brick band to first
floor.
INTERIORS: not inspected. RCHM records original staircase to
each house, those to Nos 2 & 3 with bulbous balusters, those
to Nos 4 & 4A with splat balusters. Original doors and
doorcases, plus original fireplaces with late C18 cast-iron
grates. No.4 has a ground floor bolection moulded panelled
room with dado and hidden cupboards on one wall.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 199).

Listing NGR: SE6020952197

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 2, 3, 4, And 4a, Precentors Court at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549590

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)