York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5950NW MOUNT VALE 1112-1/24/768 (South East side) 24/06/83 Nos.147-153 (Odd) Newington Hotel II Four houses, now hotel. 1823 (Nos 149 & 151) and 1827 (No.147), with C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with slate roofs, except for No.147 which has a concrete tile roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and cellars. 3 of the former houses, of 2 bays each, face Mount Vale. No.147 is taller than the other houses. The windows are sashed without glazing bars and have rusticated stone lintels. The ground-floor windows of No.151 have C20 louvred shutters. No.147 has a C20 flat-roofed dormer, and No.149 a large C20 slate-hung dormer above the cornice. The basement of No.151 is lit by a large C20 window. Nos 147 and 149 have doorcases in their right-hand bays, with engaged fluted Doric columns and with triglyph frieze blocks above their capitals. The doors have 6 raised and fielded panels, and the fanlights are glazed in a petal pattern. Modillioned gutter cornices. Chimneys to the left of each former house. The right-hand return wall, facing south-west, is of 6 bays and includes the entrance to No.151, which has a pilaster doorcase with a cornice which is pitched to form a pediment. Towards the right there is a C20 entrance porch to No.153. INTERIOR: not inspected. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 128). Listing NGR: SE5924950765