Listed Building: (1259199)

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Grade II
NHLE 1259199
Date assigned 24 June 1983
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE5952NW CLIFTON GREEN 1112-1/6/210 (South side) 24/06/83 No.16 II House. Built shortly after 1836. Mottled brick with limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Facade has one-bay gable at the left with a 2-light mullioned window to each floor, both with leaded glazing and with an heraldic shield in coloured glass in each light. The ground-floor lights have shouldered arches to the heads, and the lights of the upper window are trefoiled. The gable is coped. The right-hand return wall is blind except for a one-light window with shouldered head on the ground floor. Set back at the right, in the angle with a projecting wing, is a 2-storey turret of square plan with a pyramid roof. On the ground floor it has a doorway with chamfered surround, shouldered lintel, and boarded door with iron strap hinges. Above, at 1st floor level, there is a chamfered slit window. The right-hand return wall of the turret has a similar window at an intermediate level. The turret roof has lead rolls at the angles, a finial, and a pierced metal weather vane with the initials 'JR'. Chimneys on left-hand return wall of main range, and towards right behind entrance turret. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a gardener's cottage for the Roper family, owners of Clifton Croft, Greencliffe Drive (qv). (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 68). Listing NGR: SE5924852960

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Grid reference SE 5924 5295 (point) (2 map features)
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Nov 30 2021 9:27PM

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