York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5951NE PRIORY STREET 1112-1/15/883 (North East side) 24/06/83 Nos.11 AND 13 and attached garden gates and railings GV II House and cottage attached, with garden wall, railings and gates attached. 1858. By James Simpson of Leeds. MATERIALS: grey-cream mottled brick in English garden-wall bond; ashlar door- and window-cases, dressings and cornice; slate roof with stone coping and brick stacks. Garden wall of brick with chamfered stone coping, cast-iron railings and garden gates. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 5-window front. Both houses have renewed panelled front doors beneath segment-headed overlights: No.11 has shouldered architrave with keyblock, and No.13 has pilastered doorcase with moulded imposts, stilted segmental arch with keyblock, and moulded cornice hood. Windows are segment-headed 4-pane sashes in keyed eared and shouldered architraves, with painted stone sills on ground floor. First floor windows have sill band on block brackets, and intermediate windows are narrower than end and centre ones. Moulded eaves cornice returns at each end. Rear: three parallel gabled wings with 12-pane sash windows with painted stone sills and brick arches. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low garden wall surmounted by turned railings with fleur-de-lys tips and standards with ball finials. The house and cottage were provided for the Headmaster and the Chapel-keeper of the adjacent Wesleyan Methodist school, now Priory Street Sports and Community Centre (qv) and chapel, now Assembly of God Pentecostal Church (qv) respectively. (Murray H: Nathaniel Whittock's Birds'-eye View of the City of York in 1850: York: 1988-: 38). Listing NGR: SE5991851519