Description

YORK

SE5952NW CLIFTON GREEN
1112-1/6/210 (South side)
24/06/83 No.16

II

House. Built shortly after 1836. Mottled brick with limestone
ashlar dressings. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Facade has one-bay gable at the left with
a 2-light mullioned window to each floor, both with leaded
glazing and with an heraldic shield in coloured glass in each
light. The ground-floor lights have shouldered arches to the
heads, and the lights of the upper window are trefoiled. The
gable is coped. The right-hand return wall is blind except for
a one-light window with shouldered head on the ground floor.
Set back at the right, in the angle with a projecting wing, is
a 2-storey turret of square plan with a pyramid roof. On the
ground floor it has a doorway with chamfered surround,
shouldered lintel, and boarded door with iron strap hinges.
Above, at 1st floor level, there is a chamfered slit window.
The right-hand return wall of the turret has a similar window
at an intermediate level. The turret roof has lead rolls at
the angles, a finial, and a pierced metal weather vane with
the initials 'JR'. Chimneys on left-hand return wall of main
range, and towards right behind entrance turret.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a gardener's cottage for the Roper
family, owners of Clifton Croft, Greencliffe Drive (qv).
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-:
68).

Listing NGR: SE5924852960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550340

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