York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052NE HUNTINGTON ROAD 1112-1/9/509 (North West side) 24/06/83 Nos.27-49 (Odd) Grove Terrace GV II Terrace of 12 houses. Dated 1824; C20 alterations. Gault brick with some stone and painted stone dressings. Slate roofs. EXTERIOR: planned as a symmetrical composition of 2 storeys with alternating 2 and 3-bay houses. Nos 29, 33, 43 and 47 are of 3 bays with central doorways. Nos 27, 31 and 35 are of 2 bays with doorways in their right-hand bays. Nos 41, 45 and 49 are of 2 bays with doors in their left-hand bays. Nos 37 and 39, in the centre, form a mirrored pair with one bay to each side of a paired doorcase and central 1st floor window. The parapet is swept upwards in the centre. Below it there is a large inscription: 'GROVE TERRACE 1824'. Nos 41, 43, 47 and 49 retain glazing bar sash windows with rusticated stone or painted stone lintels. Nos 27, 31 and 33 have sashed windows with rusticated lintels; the 1st floor windows of No 29 and the central window between Nos 37 and 39 are similar. The ground floor of No.29 has straight-sided timber bay windows on brick bases, with slated roofs and with fixed lights facing forwards. No.35 has C20 casement windows. Nos 37 and 39 each have a 2-storey straight-sided bay window, with tripartite sashes. No.45 has a wide early/mid C20 bow window with timber mullions and transom and leaded glazing. On the 1st floor there is a C20 casement window. Each house has a doorcase with engaged reeded columns, a frieze with panels formed by raised borders, panelled reveals, an overlight with margin panes and diagonal glazing bars, and a door with 6 raised and fielded panels. The paired doorcases to Nos 37 and 39 have been altered: the overlights are plain and the doorcases are partly covered by a later hipped slate porch canopy carried on timber brackets. Ridge chimneys between houses. INTERIOR: not inspected. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 80). Listing NGR: SE6090952818