York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5952NE CLIFTON 1112-1/7/198 (North East side) Nos.68 AND 70 GV II House, now subdivided. c1800, extended in mid C19; reduced in height and repaired following Second World War bomb damage. Buff-orange brick in Flemish bond at front, rendered elsewhere, on stone plinth; rendered quoins and timber doorcase; rendered stacks with brick cornices to pantile roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 4-window front. Central doorcase of fluted pilasters with imposts and dentilled pediment has door of 6 raised and fielded panels and radial fanlight recessed in panelled reveal. All windows are 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, painted stone sills and flat arches of rubbed brick, those to right of orange colour. Entrance to No.68 is a glazed and panelled door beneath flat bracketed hood in right return. Ground floor windows on left return are 12-pane sashes with cambered heads: elsewhere they are C20 replacements. INTERIOR: RCHM record that a ground floor room in No.68 contains a late C18 fire surround reset from No.56 Skeldergate (qv). (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 94). Listing NGR: SE5952152841