York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5951NE PRIORY STREET 1112-1/15/881 (North East side) 24/06/83 No.5 and attached railings and gates GV II Manse, and garden railings and gates to front; now offices. c1860. Possibly by GT Andrews. MATERIALS: pink-grey mottled brick, in Flemish bond at front, English garden-wall bond to left side, on brick plinth; ashlar doorcase and banding; brick frieze beneath coved timber eaves cornice on shaped brackets; hipped roofs of slate, with brick stack. Cast-iron railings, gates and gate posts; stone plinth, terminating at left in brick pier with ashlar cap. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-bay front, with 2-storey 1-bay wing to left. Main front has steps up to plain pilaster and cornice doorcase with 4-panel door and semicircular fanlight. First floor centre window is 12-pane sash; flanking windows on both floors are paired 12-pane sashes. All windows have cambered heads beneath flat arches of brick. Sill bands to ground and first floor windows, and raised band to first floor. Wing has 3-light canted bay window with 1-pane sashes on ground floor, and unequal 9-pane sash on first floor; both have stone sills, and first floor window cambered head beneath flat arch. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings and gate posts are turned, railings with tapering concave-sided tips and gate posts with bulbous bases and ball finials; terminal pier has moulded cornice beneath pyramidal cap. Listing NGR: SE5986451523