Description

YORK

SE5952SE MARYGATE
1112-1/12/622 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.29
and walls attached to south-west

GV II*

House, now offices; incorporating part of precinct wall of St
Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens (qv). Abbey remains early C14;
house late C18.
MATERIALS: terrace wall of magnesian limestone ashlar; house
of buff-brown brick in Flemish bond, rear of orange-brown
brick in random bond with ground floor of ashlar: timber
doorcase and eaves cornice: slate roof with moulded stone
kneelers and brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-bay front. 6-panel door and radial glazed
fanlight in doorcase of sunk-panel pilasters with fluted
impost band and dentilled open pediment supported on
attenuated grooved consoles: tympanum enriched with
composition garlands and ribbons. Windows are 16-pane sashes
except for two 12-pane sashes on ground floor, all with
painted stone sills and 1-course segmental brick arches.
Ground floor windows retain sunk-panel shutters. On both upper
floors right end window is blocked. Moulded modillioned eaves
cornice.
Garden front to right: 2 storeys and attic; 1 gabled bay with
shallow 2-storey canted bay window. On ground floor, glazed
and panelled door beneath 6-pane overlight opens to terrace
garden; flanking windows are tall 8-pane sashes. First floor
window is tripartite with 12-pane centre sash. Attic has a
lunette window with casement.
Terrace garden wall has high chamfered plinth beneath 4
blocked vertical slits. Right return has shoulder-headed
doorway and 2-light window with cinquefoiled heads, both
blocked. Much weathered octagonal bowl font used as flower
container in blocked doorway.
INTERIOR: cellar: stone fireplace with chamfered segmental
arch and moulded mantelshelf. Ground floor: stone-flagged
floor entrance hall; close string staircase with turned
balusters and ramped-up handrail. Right room has cupboard
formed from blocked passage and shoulder-headed doorway to
former Almonry: fireplace has voluted jambs and moulded
dentilled shelf. First floor. Left room has plain fireplace
with moulded dentilled cornice shelf and round-headed grate.
Right room has fireplace with panelled pilaster jambs
enclosing drops, palmette capitals, frieze enriched with
garlands and urns; panelled window recess. Both rooms have
moulded plaster cornices. Second floor. Left room has plain
fireplace with moulded shelf and hob grate with figures in the
cheekpieces. Right room has moulded plaster cornice; plain
fireplace with paterae and moulded and dentilled cornice

shelf. Attic: top flight of staircase has quatrefoil
balusters: door of raised and fielded panelling on H-L hinges
at the head.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall approximately 3.5 metres high 20
metres long attached to western corner, returning to
south-east for approximately 2.5 metres enclosing raised
terrace garden: probably part of the Almonry of St Mary's
Abbey.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: The Defences: HMSO: 1972-: 167; An Inventory of the
Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the
City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London: 1975-: 84).

Listing NGR: SE5988352222

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 29 Marygate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549767

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