York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5951NE TOFT GREEN 1112-1/15/1132 (North West side) 20/12/74 Gates, gate piers and railings to Old Station forecourt (Formerly Listed as: TOFT GREEN Railings to forecourt of south-east front of York Old Station) GV II Carriage gates and gate piers to north-east side of Old Station (qv) forecourt and railings bounding forecourt to north-east and south-east. c1850. Designed by GT Andrews for the York and North Midland Railway Company; manufactured by the Walker Foundry. Gates and railings of cast-iron; gate piers of ashlar. Gate piers are rectangular on plan with moulded cornices beneath shallow pyramidal caps, one surmounted by foliate gas light standard with crossbar. Double gates of turned railings with leaf bud tips, and bands of rosettes forming middle and top rails. Turned railings with spear tips, on low stone plinth. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 57; York Historian: Malden J: The Walker Ironfoundry, York, c.1825-1923: York: 1976-: 43). Listing NGR: SE5985551682