Description

YORK

SE6052SW HIGH PETERGATE
1112-1/27/454 (South West side)
14/06/54 Nos.5 AND 5A

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.6 HIGH PETERGATE.
House, now shop and offices. c1700 with early C19 alteration
and extension: C20 shopfront. Front of painted brick in
Flemish bond with timber doorcase and eaves cornice; rear of
orange-brown brick in stretcher bond; pantile roof, hipped at
front, gabled at rear; slate roofs to extensions; brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 4-bay front. Doorcase of plain pilasters
with moulded imposts and fluted impost band has door of 6
fielded panels and semicircular fanlight beneath moulded
cornice on carved scrolled brackets. To right is shopfront
with half-glazed door and 3-light bow window: at far left,
partly blocked 1-pane sash window. To right of first floor is
tripartite bow window with curved 4-pane sash in centre; to
left, a tall 1-pane sash window with painted sill. On second
floor, four 1-pane sash windows with painted sills. Stepped
brick bands to first and second floors. Eagle firemark to left
of bow widow on first floor. Moulded dentilled eaves cornice,
broken at centre by moulded rainwater head inscribed 1763
initialled MT; original rainwater goods with rosette clamps.
Rear: 3-storey twin-gabled front, with projecting staircase
block in centre, flanked by later lower extensions. Irregular
fenestration includes one 12-pane sash to staircase block, and
2x6-pane Yorkshire sash on first floor of extension to right.
INTERIOR: cantilevered geometric staircase rises from ground
to first floor; stairs have shaped treadends, stick balusters
and serpentine handrail, wreathed at foot around turned newel
on shaped curtail step. Deep elliptical arch with fluted
soffit on paired fluted pilasters with imposts at rear of
stairhall; behind is similar, single arch beyond small plaster
vaulted hall. Hall ceiling bordered in reeded mouldings. First
floor: moulded round arch at stairhead. Stairwell ceiling has
wide moulded plaster cornice. Reeded doorcases lead to main
rooms. At rear, winder staircase leads to second floor, having
turned balusters, square newels with attached half balusters
and flat moulded and ramped-up handrail: matching moulded dado
rail. Front room fully lined in fielded panelling with moulded
dado rail and cornice; fireplace and overmantel flanked by
fluted Ionic pilasters.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 183).

Listing NGR: SE6014252208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 5 and 5a, High Petergate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549877

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)