Description

YORK

SE6052SW CHAPTER HOUSE STREET
1112-1/13/160 (North West side)
14/06/54 No.8
Old Rectory House and attached wall
and garage

GV II*

Rectory and attached wall and outbuilding; now house and
garage. Early C18 incorporating fragments of earlier
buildings; altered, extended and partly rebuilt in early C19;
further alteration c1840.
MATERIALS: render incised to resemble ashlar; stone coped
gables and brick stacks to tiled roof at front, pantiled at
rear; shaped gable against No.6 (qv) has brick coping;
rendered parapet elsewhere has moulded stone coping.
Orange-grey brick extension with pantile roof and brick
stacks.
EXTERIOR: street front: attached wall contains two doors of 6
raised and fielded panels in moulded surrounds, one beneath
moulded cornice on grooved consoles. Inside is 2-storey house
front of 2 bays at right angles. Front door is of 3 moulded
panels backed with planks: to right, 9-pane fixed window:
above is canted bay with 4:12:4-pane sash windows. Bay to
right has round-arched radial-glazed staircase window.
Inverted bell rainwater head in angle between bays.
Garden front: 2 storeys and attics; 3 bays: full-height
4-light canted bay window in centre. All windows are 12-pane
sashes. Raised first floor and eaves bands beneath plain
parapet partly masking two small-pane flat-topped dormers in
attic. Garage is of 1 storey with loft, entered through garage
door at right end of wall, and with brick dentilled eaves
cornice.
INTERIOR: in cellar beneath main staircase and in front left
room on ground floor fragments of timber-framing are visible.
Entrance hall has moulded dado rail and cornice. Front right
room has moulded cornice; corner fireplace c1700 with
sunk-panel jambs and shaped cornice shelf; raised overmantel
panel between fluted pilasters with moulded cornice. Front
centre room has reeded doorcase with angle roundels, raised
and fielded dado panelling and reeded cornice. Secondary
staircase rises to attics, having close string, stick
balusters, turned newel and ramped-up handrail. Main staircase
rises around open well to first floor, with close string,
turned balusters and moulded ramped-up handrail to square
newels.
First floor: landing has coved ceiling with moulded cornice.
Front right room has moulded cornice and corner fireplace in
moulded surround with cornice shelf. Rear right room has
moulded cornice and plain fireplace. A variety of panelled and
plank doors, many in panelled reveals, survive throughout the

house.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall rendered with flat stone coping.
Garage of red-brown brick in Flemish bond with hipped tiled
roof.
The house was rectory first to the Church of St John del Pike
(not included), later to Holy Trinity, Goodramgate (qv).
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 116).

Listing NGR: SE6044752281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550033

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback