Description

YORK

SE6052SW HIGH PETERGATE
1112-1/27/465 (South West side)
14/06/54 No.23
and attached garden wall and
outbuilding

GV I

House, carriage-house and garden wall; now offices. House and
garden wall c1779; late C19 carriage-house: early C20 and
later alterations.
MATERIALS: house front of red brick in Flemish bond on painted
stone plinth; right return of orange-brown brick in English
garden-wall bond; rear of orange-brown brick in stretcher
bond; wing of red-brown brick in English garden-wall bond;
timber doorcase and cornice; roofs of plain tile and pantile,
with stone coped gables, brick kneelers and brick stacks.
Carriage-house of orange-grey brick in English bond,
whitewashed at rear, with slate roof and brick stacks. Garden
wall of orange-brown brick in stretcher bond with moulded
stone coping.
EXTERIOR: house has 3-storey 4-bay front. Doorcase of fluted
Corinthian pilasters, dentilled open pediment enriched with
composition mouldings and panelled reveal; steps lead to
6-panel door and radial fanlight with moulded glazing bars
recessed in fluted round-arched architrave with impost band of
incised flutes and flowers. Three 12-pane sash windows with
fielded panel shutters to right of door; similar taller
windows without shutters on first floor; unequal 9-pane sashes
on second floor. Ground and first floor windows have painted
stone sill bands; those on second floor, painted stone sills:
all have flat arches of orange gauged brick. Broad bands of
painted stone to first and second floors. Dentil and modillion
moulded cornice with inverted bell rainwater head dated 1780.
Torch extinguisher attached to left of door.
Rear: 3 storeys and attics; two gabled fronts, right one
projecting forward of the left. Visible windows below attic
are 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches. Attic windows are
semicircular with brick arches, left one a lunette, right one
with 4-pane fixed light in partly blocked opening. 3-course
raised brick bands to all floors.
Garden wall approximately 1.75 metres high, ramped up to rear
of house, extends approximately 6 metres to south-west.
Outbuilding: 2 storeys and attic; 3 unequal bays, one gabled
half dormer with finial. Carriage house entrance with flat
arch of gauged brick, altered with insertion of tall windows
with square leaded lights. First floor windows are sashes with
glazing bars. Dormer has 3-light window with transom.
INTERIOR: full-height geometric staircase with slender turned
balusters and serpentine handrail, wreathed at foot around
turned newel on shaped curtail step.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 185).

Listing NGR: SE6024552121

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 23 High Petergate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q107980202 Q17530617

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