Description

YORK

SE5951SE BLOSSOM STREET
1112-1/20/54 (North West side)
19/08/71 Nos.22, 24 AND 26
Railwaymen's Club and Institute

GV II

Two houses and warehouse, now railwaymen's club. 1789, altered
early C19 and 1934. Painted brick with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 5 bays. The windows are sashed, except
for the ground and first-floor windows in the 4th and 5th bays
which are glazing bar sashes. Bays one to 3 have a continuous
timber entablature above the ground floor. This has a fillet
with continuous guttae and is supported at the left by a
pilaster and at the right by paired pilasters to each side of
the entrance. This now has recessed C20 entrance doors but was
originally a carriageway. At the left there are 3 low cellar
entrances, partly blocked. To the right of the 3rd bay there
is a lead rainwater hopper and downpipe. Dentilled and
modillioned cornice gutter. The left-hand gable has a chimney
with truncated cap in front of the ridge. Axial chimney on
ridge between 4th and 5th bays.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-:
64).

Listing NGR: SE5966651399

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550637

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