York Historic Environment Record

Lodging house, now flats. c1890, restored c1980. By WG and AS Penty for The York Coffee House Company. Red brick in English garden-wall bond with moulded brick dressings; timber entrance screen, and prominent eaves frieze and cornice of moulded timber and plaster; Westmorland slate roof with brick cornice stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 5-window front. 3-bay central entrance screen beneath full-width moulded brick cornice, framed in sunk-panel pilasters supporting dentil cornice: glazed and panelled double doors between cambered-headed plate glass windows beneath full-width moulded transom and small-pane overlights. To left, two 18-pane sash windows with moulded sills and cambered arches. Windows finished with wrought-iron guards. To right, square-headed carriage arch with dentilled cornice and board gate incorporating band of turned balusters. Second floor windows are tall 18-pane sashes with moulded stone sills and alternately triangular and segmental pediments broken by grooved dropped keyblocks capped by ball finials. Gabled half dormers have 12-pane sash windows with stone sills beneath moulded cornice lintels. Ornate rainwater goods between dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE6093051509

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