Description

YORK

SE6052SW DUNCOMBE PLACE
1112-1/27/308 (North West side)
14/06/54 Theatre House

GV II

House, incorporating St Leonard's Hospital (Museum Street, qv)
remains in cellar; now theatre offices. Late C18 rebuild of
earlier house with C13 masonry in the basement.
MATERIALS: house fronted in pink-grey brick in Flemish bond
with red brick dressings; right return of coursed magnesian
limestone on ground and first floors, second floor of varied
brick in random and stretcher bonds; left side of orange-brown
brick in random bond; timber cornice to hipped tiled roof with
brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-bay front. Ground floor altered to
provide rear passage entrance with flat lintel supported at
left side on cast-iron column: house entrance is C20 door in
right wall of passage: further right is 16-pane fixed window.
On first and second floors, windows are 12-pane sashes with
stone sills, some painted, some renewed: all have brick
quoined openings and flat arches of gauged brick. Moulded
modillioned eaves cornice returned at each end.
INTERIOR: in cellar at rear are remains of one barrel vaulted
bay in a chamfered round arch with vestiges of one capital:
vault closed by later wall containing blocked window.
Ground floor: reset late C18 staircase survives to first floor
with close string, slender turned balusters and moulded
ramped-up handrail. First floor: early C18 staircase to second
floor has close string, bulbous balusters, square newels with
attached half balusters and moulded flat handrail. Front room
has pair of early C18 cupboard doors of raised and fielded
panelling in keyed round-arched architrave. In back room is
plain fireplace with hob-grate. Various panelled doors and
fragments of panelling survive on first floor.
The house was built to provide accommodation for the Manager
and Lessee of The Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place (qv) and
may have been occupied by Tate Wilkinson before 1803.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 95; 103).

Listing NGR: SE6013352114

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549188

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6