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Latitude: 53.9528 / 53°57'10"N
Longitude: -1.0758 / 1°4'32"W
OS Eastings: 460748
OS Northings: 451142
OS Grid: SE607511
Mapcode National: GBR NQXQ.WS
Mapcode Global: WHFC3.FXY2
Plus Code: 9C5WXW3F+4M
Entry Name: The Old Convent
Listing Date: 14 June 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1257840
English Heritage Legacy ID: 463389
Also known as: 29 Fishergate, York
ID on this website: 101257840
Location: Clementhorpe, York, North Yorkshire, YO10
County: York
Electoral Ward/Division: Fishergate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: York
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: York St Lawrence with St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Architectural structure
YORK
SE6051SE FISHERGATE
1112-1/22/326 (East side)
14/06/54 No.29
The Old Convent
GV II
Formerly known as: Convent of the Sisters of Charity of St
Vincent-de-Paul FISHERGATE.
House, later convent, now flats. Late C18 with later
alterations and additions of 1902. Brick in Flemish bond with
dressings of painted stone and render. Blue tile DPC visible
in front wall. Hipped roofs, partly slated and partly
pantiled.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical, 2 storeys and 5 bays, the 3 central
bays breaking forwards slightly under a pediment. The facade
has a storey band, dentilled pediment, and dentilled cornice
gutter. The windows are glazing bar sashes with painted
rendered surrounds. Within the pediment there is an oval blind
window. The doorcase has attached fluted columns, a plain
frieze, and a cornice enriched with shallow incised triglyphs
and quatrefoils. The door has 2 glazed panels above 4 recessed
panels, and has a fanlight. The low walls to each side of the
external steps are terminated with ball finials. At the left
there is a single-storey one-bay wing which has a glazing bar
sash window, and a parapet coping with central urn. Set back
behind is a 2-storey addition. Set back to the right there is
a 2-storey addition of 1902, of 6 irregular bays, with a
hipped roof and with a lean-to conservatory in the angle with
the main building.
INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records open string staircase
with cast-iron balusters and shallow veneered handrail.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-:
69).
Listing NGR: SE6074851142
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