York Historic Environment Record

Racecourse stand. c1840 with early C20 alterations and extensions. Cast-iron and timber with boarded awning on iron trusses: slate hipped roof with wide eaves on timber brackets. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 11-bay front arcaded in two tiers of segmental arches on twisted columns with floral capitals on tall pedestals and with spandrels filled with openwork arabesques. Lower tier is open at the front: 8 bays have curved awning with scalloped valance above. Upper tier has ornate balustrade of cast-iron openwork panels. INTERIOR: lower tier stepped and fitted with wooden bench seats. Rear partition wall incorporates glazed and panelled doors and coat pegs. Behind partition wall, close string staircase has substantial turned balusters and shaped handrail on square sunk-panel newels with ball and pedestal finials. Both tiers have moulded cornices.
Listing NGR: SE5966649806

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

Purcell Miller Triton LLP, 2017, YORK RACECOURSE CLOCK TOWER AND INDICATOR BOARD HER ST (Unpublished document). SYO2016.