York Historic Environment Record

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