York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE 1112-1/17/986 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.24 GV II* House. Dated 1763; early C19 and later alterations and extension. Probably for Marmaduke Fothergill. MATERIALS: front of orange brick in Flemish bond on chamfered stone plinth; painted stone window sills and bands; timber doorcase and cornice: left return of red brick in stretcher bond. Tiled roof with brick coping and stacks, and 2-light dormer windows. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 3-window front. Panelled doorcase of fluted half-elliptical columns, horizontally fluted frieze with lion mask angle blocks and flat cornice on paired palm leaf brackets: front door of 6 raised and fielded panels with radial fanlight above transom carved with Vitruvian scrolls, in architrave enriched with oak foliage. Ground and first floor windows are 12-pane sashes; on second floor, squat 6-pane sashes: all with flat arches of gauged brick. Ground floor windows retain shutters of raised and fielded panels. Raised bands to first and second floor. Dentil and modillion cornice with dated rainwater head embossed with winged cherub heads and initials MF. INTERIOR: RCHM records original staircase with turned balusters and mushroom knops. Good plaster cornices and enriched window and door surrounds throughout. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 210). Listing NGR: SE6063951944