Description

YORK

SE5952SE BOOTHAM
1112-1/12/87 (South West side)
28/04/88 Nos.64 AND 66
and attached railings (St Mary's
House No.66)

GV II

Pair of houses with attached railings; now 2 flats and dental
surgery. c1855. Brindled brick in Flemish bond. Welsh slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars and attics, 4 x 3 bays;
attached railings on north-east and north-west sides. Bootham
front: bay-2 entrance to No.64 has 4-panel door and plain
overlight in wooden doorcase with rosettes and flattened
consoles; cantilevered, canted bay window on left has sashes
of 2:4:2 panes and modillioned cornice. Bays 3 and 4 have
projecting sills to sashes with glazing bars, in reveals
beneath cambered brick arches; sill band links similar first
floor windows; shorter 2nd floor windows. Modillioned wooden
cornice to eaves of roof having hipped end on right, 2 ridge
stacks and end stack on left.
Right return (facing St Mary's): central distyle-in-antis
porch (to No.66) encloses 4-panel door with side lights and
2-pane overlight; modillioned porch cornice. Ground floor bay
windows with sashes of 4:12:4 panes set on raised panels.
Upper floor windows as Bootham front; 2nd floor, bay-2 with
paired 4-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: 4-panel doors, some contemporary marble fireplaces.
Cantilevered stone staircase to No.66 rises in curve to 2nd
floor and has square iron rods to wooden handrail; statue
niches; elongated octagonal lantern in oval recess. Staircase
to No.64 is similar but is interrupted by an inserted ceiling
(ground floor now occupied by No.66).
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached railings facing Bootham and St
Mary's are set in dwarf walls and have twin top rail with
spear finials. Gates to basement steps on Bootham front; stone
gate piers opposite porch to No.66 and end piers on right; C20
brick corner piers.

Listing NGR: SE5988052425

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550557

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)