Description

YORK

SE6051NW BLAKE STREET
1112-1/28/45 (South West side)
14/06/54 No.18

GV II

Formerly known as: No.3 BLAKE STREET.
Two houses, now offices. 1789-90 incorporating earlier C18
house as rear wing; late C20 alterations and restoration. By
Peter Atkinson senior for Mrs E Woodhouse.
MATERIALS: front house of red brick in Flemish bond on
rendered plinth, rear of buff-orange brick in random bond;
timber doorcase and eaves cornice; slate roof with brick
stacks. Rear house of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond,
ground floor rebuilt in mottled brick; pantile roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storey, 4-bay front. Steps up to pedimented
doorcase of engaged fluted Corinthian columns, fluted frieze
and dentilled cornice and panelled reveals; recessed door of 6
fielded panels in fluted borders beneath radial fanlight in
fluted round arch with moulded impost band. Ground, first and
second floor windows are 12-pane sashes; those on third floor
squat 4-pane sashes. Ground floor windows have concrete sill
band, first floor painted stone sill band; others have painted
stone sills; all have flat arches of gauged brick. Broad first
floor band of painted stone. Dentilled and modillioned moulded
cornice returned at each end.
Rear: 4 storeys and cellars; 3 bays, right end obscured by
lower 3-storey wing. Cellars have segment-arched openings
beneath iron grilles. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with
radial fanlight in round-arched opening at left: one original
12-pane sash window remains in centre, other ground floor
windows altered. First floor has two 16-pane sash windows:
second floor 4-pane sash to left, 16-pane sash to right: third
floor three squat windows, two with 6-pane sashes, one with
4-pane sash. All windows have segmental arches of orange
brick. Brick dentil eaves course with inverted bell
rainwaterhead at left end.
Wing: 3 storeys, 3 bays. 6-panel door with divided overlight
at centre of ground floor: no windows. Windows on first floor
are 12-pane sashes, on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all
with segmental brick arches, some with original glazing bars
and glazing. 3-course raised brick bands to first and second
floors. Inverted bell rainwater head at left end of guttering.
INTERIOR: front house: blind arcading lines entrance passage
on each side, continuing beyond stairhall to back door:
stairhall approached through round arches at each end. Open
string staircase with slender turned balusters, shaped
treadends and moulded and ramped handrail wreathed at foot on
stout turned newel rises to attics: top lit through hipped
glazed lantern. Some original fireplaces survive; one in first
floor front room to left has fluted pilaster jambs: one in

rear first floor room decorated with composition mouldings.
Rear wing: full height staircase with Chinese fret balustrade
and square newels. First floor rooms retain plain fireplaces
with moulded cornice: second floor rooms have plain stone
fireplaces, one painted, one in later architrave. The Chinese
fret staircase in this building is the most complete to
survive in York.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 110-111).

Listing NGR: SE6015451991

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550626

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