Description

YORK

SE6051NW MUSEUM STREET
1112-1/28/789 (South East side)
19/08/71 No.17
River House and attached area walls
and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MUSEUM STREET
No.17
Yorkshire Club)

GV II

Club and offices: attached area wall and railings. 1868. By CJ
Parnell for The Yorkshire Club. Red brick in Flemish bond with
stone dressings, bands and quoins; granite columns to porch:
slate roof with clustered polygonal stacks.
EXTERIOR: basement, 2 storeys and attics; 3-bay centre range
flanked by 1-bay cross-wings with full-height square bay
windows crowned by shaped gables. 1-storey tetrastyle portico
links cross-wings and projects in centre as 1-bay porch.
Portico and porch, approached by steps, arcaded on squat
columns, with semicircular keyed arches, enriched hoodmoulds
and spandrels carved in low relief with strapwork and York
roses. Central tripartite doorcase of squat tapered pilasters
and triple banded round arch with elongated keyblocks: double
doors are glazed and panelled, flanked by narrow sashes,
beneath semicircular fanlight: above is roll-moulded hood.
Door flanked originally by round-headed 1-pane sashes recessed
beneath roll-moulded round arches on pilasters: right one
altered to glazed and panelled second door. Columns and
pilasters have foliate capitals. In cross-wings ground and
first floor windows are tripartite 1-pane sashes, attic
windows single 1-pane sashes. Centre range has tripartite
window between 1-pane sashes: attic windows are pedimented
dormers with keyblocks and finials. All windows have flush
quoined surrounds with sloped moulded sills and moulded
cornice hoods. Moulded first floor and eaves bands: coved
eaves cornice beneath pierced parapet with square section
piers and tapered obelisk finials. First floor balcony over
portico has similar parapet.
Right return: basement, 2 storeys and attics; 4-bay front.
Outer bays project as full-height canted bay windows. Windows
in basement are sashes, on ground floor French doors with
transoms, on first floor 1-pane sashes, to attic pedimented
dormers as on entrance front. Other detail repeats that of
entrance front. Ground floor fronted by terrace carried on
cast-iron columns with waterleaf capitals.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area walls and railings: low wall,
pierced by roundels, with moulded coping and moulded piers
with tall finials of clustered volutes: horizontal railings

with serrated upper edge are set diagonally between standards
of paired volutes with ball finials.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York:
Edinburgh: 1980-: 160).

Listing NGR: SE6004051978

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• River House And Attached Area Walls And Railings at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26548487

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