Description

YORK

SE5952SE MARYGATE
1112-1/12/631 (West side)
No.68
The Bay Horse

GV II

Public house. 1893-94 with C20 alteration. By WG Penty. Red
brick in English garden-wall bond, the first floor partly tile
hung, partly faced with planted timber-framing: ground floor
door and window surrounds are of ashlar: plain tile roof and
tall external brick stacks with brick corbel cornices.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey front of 3 gabled bays: at right end,
2-storey half octagonal tower fills angle between end gable
and external stack on right return. Entrance through porch
within quoined and moulded round arch. At rear is sunk
panelled door in architrave with incised shouldered head
beside fixed square latticed light, both in quoined surround
stepped up over door head to enclose panel inscribed: "BUILT
1894". Porch is flanked by 4-light mullioned windows over
moulded and sloped sillstring: windows are sashes of which the
upper is square latticed, the lower plain. On first floor,
centre window is square bay, coved beneath, the outer ones
canted bays on shaped brackets: all are of 5 timber mullioned
and transomed lights with square lattice glazing. Gables are
filled with decorative framing, each one different. Porch
surround and first floor plate incorporate carved bosses of
various designs. Over the porch is a moulded metal plate
embossed with the name "BAY HORSE".
Tower has pointed roof with overhanging eaves on shaped
brackets. Windows are banded at the head of each storey: those
on ground floor are single square latticed lights in moulded
stone surrounds over sloped and moulded sillstring: on first
floor, 3-light diamond leaded lights with timber mullions.
Right return: 2 storeys, 5 bays; 2 bays are gabled and divided
by tall extruded stacks. Doors are sunk panelled with inserted
lights. Ground floor windows are of 1, 2 or 5 transomed
pivoting lights. First floor windows are squatter: three are
of 3 mullioned and transomed lights, and one 1-light, one
2-light without transoms. All glazing is square latticed.
Stack towards the front has inset ashlar panel carved in low
relief with a cartouche enclosing prancing horse.
INTERIOR: on ground floor original room arrangement survives,
though with later opening-up. Original features include the
bar and two timber fireplaces with overmantels. One framed in
fluted pilasters has a carved panel of a Bay Horse dated 1898.
Staircase has close string and turned balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bay Horse replaced an earlier public
house of the same name built against the wall of St Mary's
Abbey, Museum Gardens opposite (qv), demolished as insanitary
in 1895.

(Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York through the Eyes of the
Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-: 59).

Listing NGR: SE5975952131

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Roots (formerly The Bay Horse) at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26548747

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House