York Historic Environment Record

Summerhouse, now used as boiler-house. Early C19, remodelled c1842 when Heworth Croft (qv) was built. Orange brick in English garden-wall bond with slate roof and external brick stack. EXTERIOR: 1 storey, octagonal on plan, with pilaster strip at each angle. Entrance through glazed and panelled double doors with traceried heads in 2-centred arch of white brick. In each flanking bay there is a window of 2 trefoiled lights with stone sill in 2-centred opening with arch of white brick. In the next bay there is a round-arched radial glazed sash window in plain brick arch. At rear, on each side of added stack, are single pointed lights with traceried heads. Building encircled by white brick band beneath embattled parapet to octagonal roof. INTERIOR: timber ceiling supported on timber post. Fireplace may survive behind later stove. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 77).
Listing NGR: SE6101252674

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