Description

YORK

SE6052SW GRAPE LANE
1112-1/27/429 (North West side)
19/08/71 No.7
Jackson House
(Formerly Listed as:
LOW PETERGATE
No.53)

GV II

Includes: No.53 LOW PETERGATE.
Printing works. No.7 Grape Lane c1600, raised and incorporated
into No.53 Low Petergate in early C19; refronted in C20. No.53
Low Petergate early C19, partly rebuilt and extended later in
C19. No.7 Grape Lane is timber-framed, fronted in orange-cream
brick in Flemish bond; roof not visible. No.53 Low Petergate
of orange-grey brick in Flemish and English garden-wall bonds,
part rendered; roofs of slate and pantile.
EXTERIOR: No.7 Grape Lane: 3-storey 1-window front. C20
4-panel doors flank bowed small-pane shop window over brick
riser. Left door leads to rear access passage. Oriel window on
first floor and tripartite window on second floor both have
12-pane centre sashes. Second floor window has flat arch of
orange soldier bricks. Prominent moulded timber cornice. Left
return: first floor jetty over side passage now largely boxed
in.
No.53 Low Petergate in former Morley's Yard: 2-storey 4-window
range abuts No.55 Low Petergate (qv): attached taller 2-storey
block at rear of yard. 2-storey range has doorcase of attached
reeded elliptical columns, frieze with shaped fascia panel and
rebated end blocks, and moulded cornice: door is of 6 raised
and fielded panels. To left is round-arched radial-glazed and
panelled door. To right, ground floor windows are one small
4-pane sash, 16-pane sash with cambered brick arch and 15-pane
fixed light. First floor windows are all 12-pane sashes, those
to right with 1-course cambered brick arches. Taller block has
glazed and panelled door with 12-pane overlight in canted
corner, and 12-pane sash window above. Yard front windows are
tripled 12/12-pane pivoting lights on ground floor, and
similar windows with 8/12-pane lights on first floor.
INTERIOR: No.7 Grape Lane has early C18 staircase with turned
balusters and moulded handrail; timber-framed cross wall
exposed in first floor front room. There has been a printing
works on the site of No.53 Low Petergate since mid C18.
No.7 Grape Lane is a new addition to the list.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 146;
194).

Listing NGR: SE6032952042

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548998

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Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)