Listed Building: BOOTHAM GRANGE (463092)

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Grade II
LBSUID 463092
Date assigned 28 April 1988
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE5952NE CLIFTON 1112-1/7/181 (South West side) 28/04/88 No.7 Bootham Grange GV II Pair of large houses, now hotel. c1840. Grey brick. Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars, 1:6 bays; bay one is set back with contemporary one-storey side wing in front angle; bays 2-7 form symmetrical facade. Corner pilasters with chamfered plinths and Composite capitals. Round-arched door surrounds to bays 4 and 5; bay 4 with original 6-panel door and 3-pane overlight, bay 5 with C20 copy. Sashes with glazing bars under brick arches; projecting sills to ground floor; moulded sill bands to upper windows. Overhanging eaves with wooden cornice on shaped brackets; hipped roof with end stacks and central ridge stacks. Side wing on left has part-glazed door in wooden doorcase flanked by sashes with glazing bars under recessed panels; string course, parapet and hipped roof. Bay one of main house has 2nd floor window as rest and hipped left end to roof. Left return: 4 bays with some blind windows. Right return: red brick. INTERIOR: both doorways now open into a single lobby, with a C20 glazed screen wall set back from the entrance and with a glazed door opening into the stair halls which are stone-paved and now united by a wide archway. Former left house with original staircase having cast-iron balustrade with anthemion/acanthus panels between rods with entwined vines; coiled handrail; rectangular lantern. No staircase to former right-hand house. Off each stair hall is a screen with round arch on columns. Fireplace in front-left room is of grey marble with black Doric columns. Front-right room with classical marble fireplace and Greek-fret ceiling frieze. Shown on 1st OS map (surveyed 1850). (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 67). Listing NGR: SE5972352565

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Grid reference SE 59722 52565 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire

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Mar 21 2016 2:58PM

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