Number 4 and Attached Garden Wall, Gate and Railings at Front and Back York, England

Listed Building Data

Number 4 and Attached Garden Wall, Gate and Railings at Front and Back has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID: 1257254
Listing Type: listed building
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 14 June 1954
Name: NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS AT FRONT AND BACK
Location: NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS AT FRONT AND BACK, 4, MINSTER YARD
District: York
Grid Reference: SE 60411 52218
Easting: 460411.0000
Northing: 452218.0000

Description

Listed Building Description

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YORK

SE6052SW MINSTER YARD 1112-1/27/707 (North East side) 14/06/54 No.4 and attached garden wall, gate and railings at front and back

GV II*

House, attached front garden wall, railings and gate; railings attached to back steps. Early C18, with early C19 alterations: restored 1992. MATERIALS: front of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond with timber doorcase and eaves cornice; rear of various brick in random bond with cogged brick cornice; right return red brick in English garden wall bond. Tiled roofs, with three 2x2-pane Yorkshire sash windows in box dormers at front; rear roofs are hipped, with corner scrolls: brick stacks, some rebuilt. Central entrance hall plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 5-window front. Open pedimented doorcase of attached fluted Ionic columns with foliar necking, frieze block rosettes and festooned mask in tympanum: door of 6 raised and fielded panels and radial fanlight recessed in panelled reveal. Windows are 12-pane sashes on ground floor, unequal 15-pane sashes on first floor, all with flat arches of gauged brick and painted stone sills. Dentil and modillion eaves cornice, returned at right end; fluted bowl rainwater head at left end. At far right end, behind No.5 Minster Yard (qv), brick coped shaped gable masks 1-bay wing. Rear: 3 storeys with 2-storey projecting bay at left. Glazed panelled door at right of centre, approached by flight of steps with stick railings and flat handrail wreathed at foot on turned newels: at right end, heavy door of 6 sunk panels: to left, square bay window. Windows on ground and first floors are 4-pane sashes, on second floor 2-light Yorkshire sashes, some retaining 1-course segmental brick arches. INTERIOR: ground floor: right front room has fluted doorcase and 6-panel door: fully panelled above dado rail, moulded cornice and plastered sunk-panel beam: alcove framed in round arch on fluted pilasters with enriched imposts continued as band within alcove. In entrance hall, two bolection-moulded doorcases remain. Keyed segmental arch on plain pilasters with moulded imposts leads to stairhall. Open well staircase rises to attic, with moulded close string, heavy bulbous balusters, square newels with attached half balusters and pendants, and moulded handrail: matching dado panelling lines well. First floor: left front room fully lined with bolection-moulded panelling, has moulded dado rail and coved and moulded cornice: door on L-hinges is of 3 moulded panels; eared and enriched fireplace surround has moulded cornice shelf. Right front room retains moulded cornice and plastered spine beam. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at front of house, low garden wall is

surmounted by square section railings and turned standards with urn finials, ramped up to front door steps: similar 2-leaf front gates. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 162).

Listing NGR: SE6041152218