York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5951NE TOFT GREEN 1112-1/15/1133 (North West side) 24/06/83 Toft Green Chambers GV II Pair of houses, now offices. c1845. By GT Andrews for the York and North Midland Railway Company. Front of pink-cream mottled brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar doorcases; side walls of red-grey brick in English bond; timber eaves cornice. Single brick stack in centre of slate roof. EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; 5-bay front. At each end of front, doorcase of pilasters with moulded imposts and entablature, and 4-panel door beneath divided overlight. All windows are 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, windows on second floor being squat: centre window on each floor is blind. All windows have flat arches of rubbed brick, and all except those on first floor have painted stone sills: raised sill band to first floor windows. Bold eaves cornice is carried on shaped brackets and returns across side walls forming cornice to pedimented gable ends. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Murray H: Nathaniel Whittock's Bird's-eye View of the City of York in 1850: York: 1988-: 42-43; City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 130). Listing NGR: SE5972551560