York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052SE ST ANDREWGATE 1112-1/14/929 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.20 II* House, now flats. c1780; renovated and new wing added 1978. By Thomas Atkinson, architect, for his own occupation. Front of pink-cream mottled brick in Flemish bond on high stone plinth, with doorcase and cornice of stone, and dressings of vertically tooled stone: rear of red brick in stretcher bond. Stone coped slate roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 5-bay pedimented front. Central rusticated doorcase with moulded pediment on carved consoles set within shallow elliptical arched recess has door of 2 incised, 2 sunk panels beneath moulded fluted impost band and elliptical fanlight with wheatear glazing bars. Central window on first floor has shaped architrave with moulded cornice. Ground and first floor windows are 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars and stone sill bands. Attic windows are 2- and 4-pane horizontal sliding sashes of 2 lights, with stone sills. All windows except first floor centre one have segmental brick arches. Moulded cornice to gable pediment contains cross-glazed oculus in moulded surround encircled by carved festoon suspended from scallop shell. Rear: 3-storey gable. Left part obscured by C20 wing. Segment-arched doorway in centre and 2-storey inserted bay window to right. Bay windows are tripartite; round-arched staircase sash window over doorway. Louvred roundel in gable end. INTERIOR: RCHM records various simple contemporary fireplaces and 2 stone cantilevered staircases, the main one with cast-iron balusters and mahogany handrail. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 201-202). Listing NGR: SE6053351999