Listed Building: TERRY MEMORIAL HOMES NUMBERS 1 AND 2 (1256605)

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Grade II
NHLE 1256605
Date assigned 14 March 1997
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6051SW SKELDERGATE 1112-1/21/916 (South side (off)) Terry Memorial Homes Nos.1 and 2 GV II Pair of almshouses, now craft centre. Dated 1899. By WG and A Penty. Pink mottled brick in English garden-wall bond, with orange-red brick quoins and dressings; ashlar steps and buttress bases; stone coped gable ends with brick kneelers, and brick end stacks to tiled roof. STYLE: Arts and Crafts. EXTERIOR: 1-storey 3-bay front, with battered angle and intermediate buttresses. In centre, paired doors with small-pane glazed lights, beneath flat arches of gauged brick with ashlar keyblocks. To left and right, 4-light canted bay windows with small-pane casements. Modillion eaves. Right return: commemorative cartouche set in extruded chimney stack, with date in low relief. Inscription on either side of cartouche reads: "THESE ALMSHOUSES WERE ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE SIR JOSEPH TERRY". INTERIOR: not inspected. Listing NGR: SE6014351610

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Grid reference SE 6021 5143 (point) (2 map features)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Nov 30 2021 9:27PM

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