Description

YORK

SE6052SE MONKGATE
1112-1/14/732 (South East side)
01/07/68 No.32
County House
(Formerly Listed as:
MONKGATE
C19 original block to County
Hospital)

II

Formerly known as: County Hospital MONKGATE.
The County Hospital, now offices: gas lamp standards attached
to front steps. 1849-1851. By JB and W Atkinson. Gas lamps by
William Walker. Red brick with sandstone dressings. Hipped
slate roof. Gas lamp standards of cast-iron with copper
lanterns.
PLAN: long rectangular.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys above a basement and 15 bays. The facade
has a deep rusticated plinth, quoin strips to left and right,
moulded sill bands on the 1st and 2nd floors, a plain frieze,
and a dentilled stone cornice beneath bracketed timber eaves.
The basement is lit by low rectangular window openings within
the plinth. The other windows are glazing bar sashes with
architraves. The ground floor windows have cornices on
consoles. The first floor architraves are lugged and have
cornices and pulvinated friezes. Second floor architraves are
also lugged. The central windows are tripartite. The 1st floor
window has a segmental pediment over its central light. Below
its sill a panel of rusticated masonry contains the entrance
doorway. It has pilaster reveals and a moulded round arch,
recessed within a surround which has voussoirs and quoined
jambs of vermiculated rustication and a keystone carved with a
female head. The doors have 6 panels divided into 2 leaves.
The external stone steps and side walls are renewed in C20
concrete and brickwork. The walls support elaborate lamp
standards with copper lanterns. The standards are inscribed
'W. WALKER YORK'. 8 chimneys visible behind ridge.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This building was closed as a hospital in 1977.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
49; York Historian: Haxby D and Malden J: Thomas Haxby of York
(1729-1796): York: 1978-: 50).

Listing NGR: SE6074052254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548601

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