Description

YORK

SE5952NE CLIFTON
1112-1/7/181 (South West side)
28/04/88 No.7
Bootham Grange

GV II

Pair of large houses, now hotel. c1840. Grey brick. Welsh
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars, 1:6 bays; bay one is set
back with contemporary one-storey side wing in front angle;
bays 2-7 form symmetrical facade. Corner pilasters with
chamfered plinths and Composite capitals. Round-arched door
surrounds to bays 4 and 5; bay 4 with original 6-panel door
and 3-pane overlight, bay 5 with C20 copy. Sashes with glazing
bars under brick arches; projecting sills to ground floor;
moulded sill bands to upper windows. Overhanging eaves with
wooden cornice on shaped brackets; hipped roof with end stacks
and central ridge stacks. Side wing on left has part-glazed
door in wooden doorcase flanked by sashes with glazing bars
under recessed panels; string course, parapet and hipped roof.
Bay one of main house has 2nd floor window as rest and hipped
left end to roof. Left return: 4 bays with some blind windows.
Right return: red brick.
INTERIOR: both doorways now open into a single lobby, with a
C20 glazed screen wall set back from the entrance and with a
glazed door opening into the stair halls which are stone-paved
and now united by a wide archway. Former left house with
original staircase having cast-iron balustrade with
anthemion/acanthus panels between rods with entwined vines;
coiled handrail; rectangular lantern. No staircase to former
right-hand house. Off each stair hall is a screen with round
arch on columns. Fireplace in front-left room is of grey
marble with black Doric columns. Front-right room with
classical marble fireplace and Greek-fret ceiling frieze.
Shown on 1st OS map (surveyed 1850).
(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: SE5972352565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550385

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings