Description

SE6050NE
1112-1/25/22
09/03/94

YORK

ALMA TERRACE
(South side)
No.47
The Wellington Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
ALMA TERRACE
No.47
The Wellington Inn and attached brewhouse)

II

Public house. c1850. Buff-brown brick in English garden-wall
bond with painted stone dressings and timber eaves guttering
on block brackets; slate roof at front, pantile at rear, with
brick ridge stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical facade, with a 4th bay at
right end over carriage arch. Central double doors of moulded
panelling with divided overlight in lugged architrave with
pulvinated frieze and scrolled pediment broken by central ball
finial. Flanking windows have similar architraves without
finial and are glazed with horizontal opening lights above
plate glass windows divided by central colonnette mullion.
Carriage arch is elliptical and closed by boarded garage
doors. All first floor windows are 4 over 4-pane hung sashes.
All windows have painted stone sills.
Rear: ground floor partly obscured by later outbuildings.
Central glazed and panelled door and 12-pane sash window to
left sheltered by glazed pent porch on cast-iron columns.
First floor windows are 12-pane sashes: all windows have
painted stone sills and flat arches of brick.
INTERIOR: traditional beerhouse plan with central passage
flanked on one side by public bar with servery hatch and
private back room: on the other by 2 small lounges. In both
front rooms original fireplaces survive; rear right room lined
with tongue and groove board panelling. Entrance passage is
stone flagged. Staircase has shaped treadends, slender turned
balusters and serpentine handrail wreathed at the foot. Some
benches may be original.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1867, the pub was known as Lawsons's
Beerhouse; in 1887, the Sir Colin Campbell.
(Dissertation for MA in Architectural Building Conservation:
Davison Andrew P: "A Good House, fit for the purpose: Public
House Design in York": De Montfort University: 1993-: 57).

Listing NGR: SE6068450528

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550642

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