Description

YORK

SE5952NE CLIFTON 1112-1/7/195 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.42 AND 44

GV II

House, now 2 houses. c1780 with earlier remains. Altered mid C19 when the house was divided into 2. Mottled brick with painted stone plinth. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5 bays: No.44 of 3 bays with a doorway in the right-hand bay, and No.42, at the right, of 2 widely-spaced bays with a central doorway. The facade has 2 brick storey bands. The windows are sashed. On the ground and first floors they have segmental brick arches, and on the 2nd floor the windows are shallower. The ground-floor windows have hinged shutters, each with 2 recessed panels. On the 1st floor the 2 left-hand bays have louvred shutters sliding below a rail with a timber valance. The 4th window has an external blind box. No.44 has a pilaster doorcase with fluted consoles, an open dentilled pediment, and a plain semicircular overlight. The door has 6 raised and fielded panels. The door to No.42 is similar, but the doorcase has plain pilasters and brackets, and an open pediment without mouldings. Chimney in front of ridge in line with door to No.42. 2nd chimney behind ridge towards left. The left-hand return gable wall is of one bay and is treated similarly. INTERIOR: RCHM records staircase with slender turned balusters and 2 original fireplaces. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 66).

Listing NGR: SE5958052756

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