York Historic Environment Record

House, now hotel. c1827. Sandstone ashlar facade with white brick side walls and red brick rear walls and chimneys. Hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and cellars. Facade symmetrical, of 2 storeys with one bay to each side of a bowed centre, and with a plinth, a moulded 1st floor sill band, and overhanging eaves. The windows are glazing bar sashes. Those to the outer bays have architraves, with cornices to those on the ground floor. The bowed centre has 3 windows on each floor. Those on the ground floor have semicircular heads and moulded imposts, and those on the 1st floor have architraves. Rising above the centre of the roof is a timber lantern of rectangular plan with 3 glazing bar sash windows facing forwards and with a chimney at each of its 4 corners. The left-hand return wall is of 3 bays and has glazing bar sash windows with stone architraves. To the left of the entrance there is a small window which is sashed without glazing bars. A port-cochere is carried on square piers and has a plain entablature. The door has 4 panels, and flanking lights. Set back to the right there is a 3-storey bay of red brick which is the side wall of a rear wing. It has glazing bar sash windows. The right-hand return wall (facing north-east) is of 5 bays and has cellar windows. At the rear of the building a small yard is enclosed by single-storey outbuildings and by a brick wall which carries cast-iron railings which have finials with anthemion ornament. INTERIOR: the stair hall rises through the full height of the building and is lit by the central lantern. The staircase has cantilevered stone treads and has cantilevered 1st floor landings on 2 sides. The cast-iron balustrading is enriched with honeysuckle ornament. Below the lantern light there is a band of richly moulded plasterwork with cornucopias and foliage. The ground-floor room which occupies the central bow has a curved white marble fireplace with sides decorated with foliage patterns and with paterae on the frieze. The circular border to the ceiling also has foliage decoration. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 62).
Listing NGR: SE5981952562

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

NMR Information:

5343 BOOTHAM (north-east side)
No 65 (Record House)
SE 5952 NE 7/105 19.8.71
Grade II*
2.
Circa 1827. Ashlar faced with the sides of white brick; 2-storeys;
a large tiered convex bay projects with 3 windows, square
headed in the upper storey and semi-circular headed below. On
either side of this, is a square headed window; sill band at
1st storey; doorway on north-west side with porte-cochere on
square piers; hipped slate roof surmounted by square lantern
bounded by 4 stacks. Interior has stone staircase with enriched
iron balustrade, and some decorative plasterwork.
(RCHM Vol IV, Monument 49.)

Garden railings and gate piers of No
65 (Record House)
Grade II*
2.
Circa 1840. Cast iron railings extending over frontage having
honeysuckle ornament, stone piers and a pair of gate piers, all
with Greek fret ornament and moulded anthemion to stone caps. (1)

Situated at SE 5982 5257. (2)

1 List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest DOE (HHR) City of York N Yorks June 1983 29
2 Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) 1:2500, 1962.

Related event: (UID 613515) INVESTIGATION BY RCHME/EH ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY
Architectural Survey 14-NOV-1995

Carvings in stone pillars (one original and one 21st century replacement) are war time markings. W D stands for War Department. Some are numbered and others indicate where the boundary starts/ends. The Churchill boundary markers state 'WD no. 2' and 'WD 30FT SE'. The Churchill Hotel building was once used as military offices hence the War Dept boundary markers. (York Stories 2008 http://yorkstories.co.uk/signs-and-symbols/wd-boundary-markers/)