Description

YORK

SE6051NW CASTLEGATE
1112-1/28/144 (North East side)
24/06/83 No.29

GV II

House, now gallery. c1840, renovated 1991. Front of
orange-brown brick in Flemish bond on painted moulded stone
plinth; timber doorcase and moulded eaves cornice on small
mutules. Stone coping and brick kneelers and stacks to double
span slate roof; roof valley on right return masked by flat
parapet.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 4-bay front to Castlegate: entrance in
right return. All windows are 12-pane sashes with slender
glazing bars, painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged
brick. Right return: central doorcase of sunk panelled
pilasters, Doric entablature hood and panelled reveals, with
recessed 6-panel door and overlight, approached by steps.
12-pane window in centre of first floor. To left, fluted bowl
rainwater head.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has enriched dentilled cornice. Ionic
arch of fluted columns and entablature leads to stairhall.
Floors of both halls of encaustic tiles, and all doorcases are
reeded with angle roundels. Open string winder staircase with
shaped treadends, slender bobbin balusters and moulded
serpentine handrail, wreathed at foot around turned newel.
Rooms to left have moulded skirtings and moulded cornices, one
with floral paterae, one with foliar paterae. Window and
doorcases are reeded with angle roundels, and windows have
panelled shutters and reveals. Both rooms have marble
chimneypieces, one with curvilinear mantelshelf and cast-iron
fire surround with chrysanthemum tiles, the other with plain
mantelshelf on heavy moulded brackets.
First floor: landing has moulded ceiling cornice:
radial-glazed circular lantern, rising from moulded surround,
lights stairwell. Both main rooms have moulded skirtings and
moulded cornices. Window and doorcases plain, but
interconnecting door has reeded architrave with angle
roundels, panelled reveals and folding panelled doors. One
room has moulded chimneypiece with angle roundels and moulded
mantelshelf.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 113).

Listing NGR: SE6047451568

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550463

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