Description

YORK

SE65SW HUNTINGTON ROAD
1112-1/2/511 (West side)
24/06/83 Grange House
(Formerly Listed as:
HUNTINGTON ROAD
Former Administration block of the
former Grange Hospital (now St
Mary's))

GV II

Workhouse offices; now student flats. 1848-49 with
contemporary extension and later bay windows; renovated 1994.
Architects JB and W Atkinson.
MATERIALS: orange-cream brick in English garden wall and
stretcher bonds on brick plinth; bay windows in orange brick
with sandstone plinth and dressings. Shallow pitched hipped
slate roofs with widely overhanging eaves, on shaped timber
brackets in centre front.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 9-bay front, with 2-bay extension at left
end. Outer angles are pilastered; original end bays break
forward and have canted bay windows on ground floor. In centre
of original front is round-arched doorcase of 2 orders with
recessed glazed door and semicircular fanlight. Three windows
on each side are recessed radial glazed sashes beneath arcaded
round arches with stone impost band. Canted bays have three
similar sash windows recessed in triple keyed orange brick
arches and moulded cornices beneath plain parapets with
moulded stone copings.
First floor windows are cambered headed 12-pane sashes, centre
one in pedimented moulded brick surround with stone sill and
brick apron; others have segmental brick arches with stone
impost band and sill band. All second floor windows are squat
12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and painted stone sill
band broken by pilaster strips. Windows in extension conform
with equivalents elsewhere.
Rear: 3 storeys, 11 bays, with 1- and 2-storey projections at
each end linked by 1-storey glasshouse. Glazed double doors in
centre of glasshouse and 4-panel glazed and panelled door at
right end: other ground floor openings are sash windows of
various types. Projection to right has Venetian staircase sash
window on first floor. Otherwise first and second floor
windows are 12-pane sashes, those on second floor squat,
except where altered or inserted. Windows on first floor have
segmental brick arches, on second floor cambered arches.
Returns: windows on each floor correspond with those on main
front.
INTERIOR: staircase known to have close strings, turned bobbin
balusters and plain handrail on square newels with ball
finials.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:

RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
51).

Listing NGR: SE6085453041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548892

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)