Description

YORK

SE6052SW MINSTER YARD
1112-1/27/707 (North East side)
14/06/54 No.4
and attached garden wall, gate and
railings at front and back

GV II*

House, attached front garden wall, railings and gate; railings
attached to back steps. Early C18, with early C19 alterations:
restored 1992.
MATERIALS: front of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond with
timber doorcase and eaves cornice; rear of various brick in
random bond with cogged brick cornice; right return red brick
in English garden wall bond. Tiled roofs, with three 2x2-pane
Yorkshire sash windows in box dormers at front; rear roofs are
hipped, with corner scrolls: brick stacks, some rebuilt.
Central entrance hall plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 5-window front. Open pedimented
doorcase of attached fluted Ionic columns with foliar necking,
frieze block rosettes and festooned mask in tympanum: door of
6 raised and fielded panels and radial fanlight recessed in
panelled reveal. Windows are 12-pane sashes on ground floor,
unequal 15-pane sashes on first floor, all with flat arches of
gauged brick and painted stone sills. Dentil and modillion
eaves cornice, returned at right end; fluted bowl rainwater
head at left end. At far right end, behind No.5 Minster Yard
(qv), brick coped shaped gable masks 1-bay wing.
Rear: 3 storeys with 2-storey projecting bay at left. Glazed
panelled door at right of centre, approached by flight of
steps with stick railings and flat handrail wreathed at foot
on turned newels: at right end, heavy door of 6 sunk panels:
to left, square bay window. Windows on ground and first floors
are 4-pane sashes, on second floor 2-light Yorkshire sashes,
some retaining 1-course segmental brick arches.
INTERIOR: ground floor: right front room has fluted doorcase
and 6-panel door: fully panelled above dado rail, moulded
cornice and plastered sunk-panel beam: alcove framed in round
arch on fluted pilasters with enriched imposts continued as
band within alcove. In entrance hall, two bolection-moulded
doorcases remain. Keyed segmental arch on plain pilasters with
moulded imposts leads to stairhall. Open well staircase rises
to attic, with moulded close string, heavy bulbous balusters,
square newels with attached half balusters and pendants, and
moulded handrail: matching dado panelling lines well. First
floor: left front room fully lined with bolection-moulded
panelling, has moulded dado rail and coved and moulded
cornice: door on L-hinges is of 3 moulded panels; eared and
enriched fireplace surround has moulded cornice shelf. Right
front room retains moulded cornice and plastered spine beam.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at front of house, low garden wall is

surmounted by square section railings and turned standards
with urn finials, ramped up to front door steps: similar
2-leaf front gates.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 162).

Listing NGR: SE6041152218

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 4 Minster Yard at Wikipedia
• 4 Minster Yard at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q109256525 Q17549656

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