Description

YORK

SE55SE HOLGATE ROAD
1112-1/1/501 (South side)
24/06/83 No.163
Collingwood Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
HOLGATE ROAD
No.163
Holgate House)

II*

House, now hotel. c1775 with early and late C19 alterations.
Brick in Flemish bond with hipped plain tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: main block symmetrical, of 3 storeys and 3 bays,
with 2-storey one-bay wings to left and right. The main block
has 2 brick storey bands. Its windows are glazing bar sashes.
On the ground floor there are canted bay windows with
cornices, on brick bases. The upper windows have painted brick
flat arches. The late C19 brick porch has round-headed windows
in its side walls, and a cornice and blocking course. It has a
re-set C18 doorcase which has fluted Doric pilasters with
attached narrow pilaster strips, console brackets, a cornice
hood, and a semicircular overlight. The door has 6 raised and
fielded panels. The gutter cornice is dentilled and
modillioned. The left-hand (east) wing has a sashed window on
the ground floor and a glazing bar sash on the 1st floor. It
appears to be an early C19 rebuilding of an earlier annexe.
The right-hand wing has glazing bar sashes, the head of the
ground-floor one cutting through a brick band. To the right is
a narrow late C19 addition under a separate hipped slate roof.
Its front wall is blind, but has a recess at ground-floor
level. Chimneys with rebuilt stacks to left of main block and
placed axially to right of ridge. Other chimneys visible to
right of main block, towards left of ridge, and to right of
ridge of right-hand wing.
INTERIOR: a central stair hall at the front of the building
contains an elliptical geometrical staircase in 3 flights with
turned balusters and a mahogany handrail. Also recorded by
RCHM as containing a re-set door and doorcase of c1770, and,
on the first floor, two fireplaces of a similar date with
pilastered surrounds.
Lindley Murrey, the Anglo-American lawyer and grammarian,
lived in the house for over 39 years until his death in 1826.
(RCHME: City of York: London: 1972-: MONUMENT 52).

Listing NGR: SE5875051344

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 163 Holgate Road at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549846

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