Description

YORK

SE6052SW HIGH PETERGATE
1112-1/27/453 (North East side)
14/06/54 No.4
Bootham Bar Hotel

GV II

Formerly known as: No.109 HIGH PETERGATE.
House, now hotel. 1782, with later alteration and extension.
Probably by Peter Atkinson, senior, for Joseph Horner.
Orange-brown brick, front and right return of Flemish bond,
random bond elsewhere; timber doorcase and cornice: double
span roof, hipped at right, the front of slate, rear of plain
tile; brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basement; 2-window front. Fluted
pilaster doorcase at right end beneath open pediment enriched
with festoons, drops and other mouldings; 3 steps lead to
6-panel door and radial fanlight over fluted transom. To left,
iron grilles cover two cellar windows with 1-course segmental
brick arches. On ground, first and second floors, windows are
12-pane sashes: on third floor, 2x1-pane casements. Ground and
first floor windows have painted stone sill bands, those on
second and third floors narrow painted sills: all have gauged
brick arches except those on third floor which are rendered.
Raised first floor band. Modillioned eaves cornice continues
over right return as brick dentil cornice: at left end,
inverted bell rainwater head dated 1782, initialled JH.
Rear: 4-storey 2-bay front. Ground floor obscured by
extension; first and second floors have 12-pane sashes, third
floor 2x1-pane casement windows: all have rendered wedge
lintels. Brick dentil eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: ground floor: round arches on pilasters with imposts
separate stairhall. Top-lit staircase rises to attic having
open strings, slender turned balusters, shaped treadends and
flat moulded and ramped handrail. On first and second floors,
landings and subdivided front rooms retain simple moulded
cornices.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 180).

Listing NGR: SE6014252234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548952

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