Building record MYO1084 - 147 - 153 Mount Vale

Summary

Four houses built in 1823 (Nos 149 & 151) and 1827 (No.147), with 19th and 20th century alterations. Brick with slate roofs. Exterior: 3 storeys with attics and cellars. Three of the former houses, of 2 bays each, face Mount Vale. No.147 is taller than the other houses. Formerly used as the Newington Hotel and now converted to residential.

Location

Grid reference SE 5924 5076 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (6)

Full Description

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

Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005

NMR Information

613515 Architectural Survey Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey

BF060923 NENINGTON HOTEL, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.


NMR, NMR data (Unassigned). SYO2214.

RCHME, 1972, RCHME City of York Volume III South-west of the Ouse (Monograph). SYO64.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Unassigned: NMR. NMR data.
  • --- Monograph: RCHME. 1972. RCHME City of York Volume III South-west of the Ouse.

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Record last edited

Mar 10 2020 11:48AM

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