Description

YORK

SE5952NW CLIFTON
1112-1/6/204 (West side (off))
24/06/83 St Olave's House (St Olave's School)

II

House, now school. 1813. For David Russell, solicitor, altered
C20. Stucco with hipped concrete tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: main block symmetrical, of 2 storeys and 3 bays. The
windows are glazing bar sashes and are taller on the ground
floor. The porch has a sprocketed hipped roof, a divided
4-panel door with pilaster jambs, and a semicircular overlight
incorporating a lamp. To the left there is a single-storey
one-bay C20 addition with a coped parapet and a tripartite
glazing bar sash window. To the right there is a 2-storey
2-bay wing which has glazing bar sashes and has a small square
window between the 1st floor windows.
INTERIOR: the inner porch door is of oak and partly glazed.
The doors opening off the stair hall are of mahogany, with 6
panels which have margins formed by raised mouldings. The
dog-leg stair has an open string, turned mahogany balusters,
and a wreathed mahogany handrail.
House was known as Clifton Grove when built.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-:
67).

Listing NGR: SE5947952703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550372

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)