Description

YORK

SE5952NE GROSVENOR TERRACE
1112-1/7/434 (North West side)
Nos.9-12 (Consecutive)

II

Terrace of 4 houses; now hotel and flats. 1870-80. Possibly by
John Bellerby.
MATERIALS: white brick in English garden-wall bond with
dressings of ashlar and red stone; red brick or terracotta
eaves frieze behind white brick corbelled cornice with timber
guttering; slate roof with gabled dormer windows with 4-pane
sashes, originally with pierced and scalloped bargeboards and
turned timber finials; white brick stacks panelled in red
brick and with white moulded brick cornices. House divisions
marked by inserted moulded stone corbels at second floor and
eaves levels.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 8 bays, each house 2 bays; the outer bay
of each house forms a 2-storey canted bay window topped by low
parapet over coved cornice linked at second floor level by
ceramic tile band. Short flights of steps lead to paired front
doors of shaped panels in moulded surrounds which project
slightly forward beneath shared moulded cornices. All windows
are 1-pane sashes, those on first and second floors having
2-centred pointed heads. All openings have 2-centred arched
surrounds with colonnette jamb shafts of red stone with
foliate capitals and moulded square abaci; ground floor
capitals incorporate carved heads. Ground floor openings have
continuous hoodmould with head stops; on second floor,
hoodmould is formed by moulded impost band stepped up over
window heads. Ground and first floor windows have sill bands:
on second floor windows have sills on shaped brackets.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE5989852686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549006

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)