Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549159

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets