Description

YORK

SE6052SW LOW PETERGATE
1112-1/27/593 (North East side)
14/06/54 Nos.64 AND 66
York College for Girls
(Formerly Listed as:
LOW PETERGATE
No.64)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.67 AND 67A LOW PETERGATE.
House; now part shops, part school. Front block dated 1743;
C15 and C16 rear wings, remodelled in early C17;
EXTERIOR: extensive alterations later. Front block of painted
rendered brick, with timber colonnade and cornice; left return
of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond: rear wings
timber-framed with rendered infilling. Roofs are tiled or
pantiled with brick coping and brick stacks, some truncated.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 5-bay front. C20 plate glass
shopfronts behind tetrastyle in antis colonnade. First and
second floor windows are 12-pane sashes. Moulded modillioned
eaves cornice, returned at each end, with winged cherub
rainwater head dated 1743, initialled JR, and fall pipe on
rosette clamps. 2 pedimented dormer windows with 2-light
casements to attics. Rear: three gabled wings, timber-frame
exposed. Fenestration largely C20 timber mullioned windows:
blocked timber mullion window visible in gable end of centre
wing. On second floor of right wing is canted oriel window
with 12-pane sash between 8-pane sashes. In return of centre
wing is 6-panel door beneath vestigial bressumer carved with
vine trails, with round-arched staircase sash above; 2-light
2- and 4-pane Yorkshire sash on second floor.
INTERIOR: front block, first floor: C18 fireplace with
dentilled cornice shelf in right front room; moulded cornice
in left front room. Second floor: close string staircase to
attics has column on vase balusters, square newels and flat
moulded handrail. Right front room has painted stone
bolection-moulded fireplace. 2- and 3-panel doors. Centre
wing: open well staircase to second floor, plastered and
panelled beneath. It has moulded close string, bulbous
balusters, panelled newels with ball and pedestal finials,
heavy moulded handrail, and carved foliate volute at base of
bottom newel. Doorcase at foot of stairs has pulvinated
frieze, cornice and door of 6 raised and fielded panels. Left
wing: ground floor room has moulded brick fireplace with
flattened elliptical arch and shallow arched recesses above.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York:
Edinburgh: 1980-: 167; City of York: RCHME: The Central Area:
HMSO: 1981-: 191).

Listing NGR: SE6039552028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 64 and 66 Low Petergate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549788

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)