Description

YORK

SE6051NW LOW PETERGATE
1112-1/28/607 (South West side)
19/08/71 No.89
(Formerly Listed as:
LOW PETERGATE
No.89
Londesbro Public House)

GV II

House, now restaurant. c1700 with early C19 extension, later
C19 alteration and further alterations in C20.
MATERIALS: front of stuccoed brick with chamfered quoins and
timber shopfront; rear of orange-brown brick in English
garden-wall bond; timber guttering on paired modillions;
pantile roof, hipped at front, with tumbled brick gable at
rear; brick stack. Extension range of red-brown brick in
English garden-wall bond with tiled and pantiled roof and
brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Shopfront has recessed
entrance between plate glass windows. On first floor, 3-light
canted oriel window with moulded cornice between 1-pane sash
windows in eared architraves with sills. On second floor,
similar windows flank a blank moulded plaster panel,
originally for inn sign. Similar full-width moulded panel
below second floor windows.
Rear: ground floor obscured by later building. On first,
second and attic floors original openings beneath 3-centred
1-course brick arches mostly blocked. 2-course raised brick
bands to second floor and attic. Extension is 2-storeyed and
has 12-pane sash window with tooled lintel on first floor.
Wall to Nos 91-93 (qv) has one similar window with 1-course
segmental brick arch, and 2-course raised brick band.
INTERIOR: first floor: subdivided front room fully lined with
bolection moulded panelling. Quarter-turn staircase from first
floor to attic has moulded close string, bulbous balusters,
square newels with attached half balusters and heavy moulded
handrail. Rear room on second floor retains bolection-moulded
doorway with 3-panel door on L-hinges; and original fireplace
with moulded mantelshelf. Extension has cantilevered staircase
with grooved stick balusters and serpentine moulded handrail
wreathed at foot around turned newel on shaped curtail step.
HISTORICAL NOTE: building was Baynes' Hotel between 1813 and
1826, Tomlinson's Hotel until 1839, Jackson's Hotel until
1852, The Grapes Inn until 1882 when it became known as the
Londesbro Arms.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 196).

Listing NGR: SE6038551987

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548753

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