Description

YORK

SE6052SE ALDWARK
1112-1/14/16 (North East side)
Nos.47 AND 49

GV II

4 ranges of school buildings, now offices. Range of 1870 by JB
and W Atkinson; other ranges of 1887 and 1901 by Demaine and
Brierley. For the York Blue Coat School.
MATERIALS: orange and orange-grey brick in English and English
garden-wall bonds, No.49 retaining remnants of earlier brick
in Flemish and stretcher bonds. Nos 47 and 49 have moulded
brick dressings, terracotta also to No.49. Stone coped slate
roofs with brick stacks. Ranges form three sides of yard to
rear of St Anthony's Hall, Peasholme Green (qv).
EXTERIOR: No.47: 3 storeys, 5 unequal bays. Entrance from
courtyard. 3-light windows on ground floor have flat
hoodmoulds and segmental relieving arches; 2-light first floor
windows flat arches of soldier brick; segment-gabled half
dormers on second floor 2-light windows with header brick
arches. Single light windows in left end half bay. All windows
are mullioned and transomed. Moulded brick string beneath
second floor windows.
Courtyard front: 3 storeys, 2 bays, with 3-storey gabled wing
projecting to right. Glazed and panelled door in altered
opening to right of segmental carriage arch closed by board
doors. 2-light casement windows are mullioned and transomed,
those on first floor with segmental arches, on second floor in
gabled half dormers. Wing has 2 doors on ground floor, one
glazed and panelled, one of diagonal boarding. Plain
bargeboards to gable end.
No.49: 3-storey 3-bay front. To left, altered opening contains
segmental carriage arch with board doors and 3-light window,
each beneath flat hoodmould. To right, 3x6-pane segment-arched
window and hoodmould over shaped apron. On first and second
floors, 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with shaped
aprons on first floor have triangular pediments breaking into
plain aprons beneath similar windows in pedimented
half-dormers on second floor. Small 6-pane light with shaped
apron beneath segmental arch and hoodmould at right end of
first floor. Moulded eaves course. All windows are casements
with shaped stone sills. On courtyard side, school bell on
wrought-iron bracket survives over 6-panel door in projecting
closet at left end. Within carriageway, blocked opening
beneath semicircular arch on imposts survives.
Range at rear of courtyard: 2 storeys, 7 windows. At right
end, glazed and panelled door beneath 30-pane staircase window
with cambered head. Other windows segment-arched 12-pane
sashes with stone sills, arranged 1:2:1, flanking two extruded
stacks.
Range to left of courtyard: 2 storeys, 5 windows. Ground floor

openings mostly altered: on first floor windows are 12-pane
sashes with brick sills and slightly cambered arches of gauged
brick. Brick dentil eaves course.
INTERIORS: there are no fittings of note except stone
staircase with cast-iron stick bannisters and serpentine
handrail in rear range, and cast-iron fireplace in second
floor room in No.49.
(City of York: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 91).

Listing NGR: SE6072452025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550670

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  For the Record
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)