York House Malton, England

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MALTON

SE780715 YORKERSGATE 801-1/8/183 (South side) 29/09/51 No.41 York House (Formerly Listed as: YORKERSGATE (South side) No.41 including gate piers and railings)

GV II*

House, now offices and domestic accommodation. c1684; partly rebuilt and centre of garden front extended forwards in early C18. Probably for Sir William Strickland on his marriage to Elizabeth Palmes. Part coursed squared stone, part hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings; coped gables and shaped kneelers to stone slate roof, with stone stacks, one rebuilt. Stairhall and crosswing plan. Entrance front: 2-storeys and attic, with 2-window centre range between 2-window gabled crosswings. Chamfered plinth and irregular quoins. Central door of 8 raised-and-fielded panels in eared and keyed architrave, between tall 18-pane sashes; 2 similar windows above. Windows in crosswings are sashes, of 12 panes to left, 18 panes to right; attic windows are squat, of 12 panes. All windows have architraves and stone sills, with sillband on ground floor. Coved eaves course beneath moulded timber eaves cornice over centre range and crosswing returns. Inserted gabled dormer with 12-pane window in centre range attic. Crenellated lead rainwater head and drainpipe on left crosswing return. Garden front: 2-storey 3-bay centre range, flanked by 2-storey-and-attic; 2-window gabled crosswings. Centre range, with raised chamfered quoins, treated as giant arch in rusticated quoined surround with keyblock, between tall 12-pane sashes on each floor. Radial-glazed staircase sash in keyed round-arched architrave with moulded imposts recessed beneath arch; 8-panel door in keyed architrave in left return. Moulded projecting eaves cornice. Left crosswing has raised chamfered quoins, the right flush quoins. Windows are 12-pane sashes in keyed architraves with stone sills. INTERIOR: entrance hall retains early C18 stone paved floor. To rear, arcaded staircase screen, with keyed arches on square columns, encased in raised-and-fielded panelling. Open-well staircase, with close-string stairs, turned vertically symmetrical balusters with square knops, moulded handrail and square newels with shallow pyramidal caps. Beneath stairs, early C19 half-glazed double doors with fluted panels and paterae lead to rear entrance lobby. Right crosswing: dogleg secondary staircase with moulded handrail; balustrade boxed-in, possibly concealing original balusters. At foot of stairs on ground floor, pierced plank cupboard doors on butterfly hinges. Door to front room of 3 raised-and-fielded panels. On first floor, rear room is panelled. 3-panel entrance and closet doors, the latter on HL hinges, and panelled shutters. Bolection-moulded stone fireplace and panelled overmantle survive. All panelling is raised and fielded. Moulded dado rail and cornice. Front room has plain stone fire surround with pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice shelf. 3-panel closet door, on HL hinges. Last flight of stairs leading to second floor is close-string with column-on-vase balusters, moulded handrail and square newels. Doors on second floor landing are of 2 raised-and-fielded panels on HL hinges. Left crosswing: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE7852071578