Description

YORK

SE5952SE MARYGATE LANE
1112-1/12/636 (South West side)
14/06/54 Almery Garth and Little Garth

GV II

House, now two houses. Little Garth early C18 extended c1740
to form Almery Garth; alterations and extensions of c1850 and
1901; subdivided 1933; further alterations later in C20.
MATERIALS: garden front of orange-cream brick in Flemish bond
with orange brick dressings and timber guttering; stone
plinth; Marygate Lane side orange-brown brick in random bond
and English garden-wall bond, painted on ground floor; pantile
roof with brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: Marygate Lane side: 3 storeys 9 bays; irregular
fenestration. Entrance to Little Garth towards left end is
plain doorcase of pilasters with entablature: entrance to
Almery Garth is beaded panelled door with radial fanlight over
fluted transom, recessed in plain pilaster and cornice
doorcase with panelled reveal. Ground floor windows are 2- and
3-light diamond latticed casements beneath renewed segmental
brick arches. On first floor, Little Garth has casement
windows with 1-course segmental brick arches, 3x6-pane lights
to left, 2x10-pane lights to right. Second floor has two
3x4-pane casement windows and one 6-pane pivoting light.
Almery Garth has one 12-pane sash window on both floors.
Garden side: 3-storey 3-bay front to Almery Garth; Little
Garth has 3-storey front of 3 unequal bays with 1-storey
pent-roofed projecting outbuilding to left.
Almery Garth front terminated by full height pilaster at each
end: centre bay forms shallow projection now masked by
addition of 2-storey central porch extending into 2-storey bow
window to right: to left is C19 pent-roofed conservatory.
Central margin-glazed and panelled door with bordered
overlight in plain pilaster and cornice doorcase beneath flat
porch. To right, bow window has tripartite sashes on both
floors, with curving 12-pane sashes in centre, in pilastered
surrounds with moulded imposts and cornices: 3-course raised
brick band to first floor. Ground floor to left obscured by
conservatory. First floor windows to left and centre are
12-pane sashes: on second floor, windows are squat, of 6
panes, originally sashes, some altered. All have painted stone
sills and flat arches of gauged brick with painted stone
keyblocks, those over centre windows tripled. Painted raised
band to second floor continues as coping to parapet over bow
window and porch. Moulded guttering on paired modillions
breaks forward over centre and pilasters.
Little Garth: outbuilding has small-pane French window. To
right, former outbuilding converted to kitchen has plank and
batten door on strap hinges to main house. In centre is
12-pane sash window: on first floor, three similar windows and

one tall 4-pane casement, all with segmental brick arches and
brick quoined openings. On second floor, one 6-pane sash at
left end, 2x2-pane casement in centre, small 4-pane casement
at right end. 3-course raised brick bands to first and second
floors.
INTERIORS: Almery Garth. Entrance hall: stone flags said to
survive beneath C20 cork tiles: grooved and reeded plaster
cornice. Room to right: door and window cases are fluted, with
angle blocks and flat cornice to door: panelled window
shutters; moulded ceiling cornice. C19 open string staircase
has slender turned balusters and serpentine handrail wreathed
at foot around turned newel on shaped curtail step: top flight
to attic reuses early C18 balustrade of column-on-vase
balusters with moulded flat handrail and square newels with
attached half-balusters. Room in attic has painted stone
fireplace with hob grate.
Little Garth: altered staircase with close string and turned
bobbin balusters. Ground floor room to right has introduced
fireplace with moulded surround and inserted hob grate. Door
to outbuilding is glazed and panelled.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London:
1975-: 87).

Listing NGR: SE5978552179

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548717

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