Description

YORK

SE6052SE MONKGATE
1112-1/14/735 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.38
Middleton House

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.38 St Maurice's Rectory MONKGATE.
House. c1700, altered c1780 and early C19. Brick in Flemish
bond. Plain tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: main building symmetrical, of 3 storeys (originally
2 storeys) and 5 bays. The central bay projects slightly and
the facade has 2 brick storey bands and a modillioned gutter
cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick
flat arches. The stucco doorcase has rusticated pilasters, a
lintel with false voussoirs, and a modillion cornice. The
overlight has lozenge-pattern glazing and the door has 6
raised and fielded panels. The gables are coped, with a
chimney at the right-hand end of the ridge. To the left there
is a 2-storey wing with a pantiled roof behind a parapet. On
the ground floor it has an elliptical rubbed brick carriage
arch with stone impost blocks and a keystone. Recessed within
the opening there is a C20 brick wall with a glazing bar sash
window. To the right of the archway there is a glazing bar
sash window matching those to the main house, and on the 1st
floor there is a similar window in an altered opening.
INTERIOR: RCHM records a fine original staircase with twisted
balusters to the lowest flight, and with bulbous turned
balusters to upper floors, all with square newels and a
moulded and ramped handrail.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1798, the house was bought by the Rev.
Charles Wellbeloved. In 1803 he became Principal of Manchester
College, a dissenting academy which moved to York from
Manchester in that year and was accommodated in his house
until 1811.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
89).

Listing NGR: SE6070352343

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Middleton House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549641

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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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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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)