Building record MYO1024 - ST HILDAS GARTH

Summary

House, built in 1848 for Joseph Munby (solicitor), used as a girl's orphanage, now a Family Resource Centre. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof. Exterior: main block symmetrical, of 2 storeys with a 3-bay porch and one bay to each side.

Location

Grid reference SE 5913 5273 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire
Civil Parish York, City of York, North Yorkshire

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Full Description

House, now Family Resource Centre. Built in 1848 for Joseph Munby (solicitor). Yellow brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR: main block symmetrical, of 2 storeys with a 3-bay porch and one bay to each side. The windows are glazing bar sashes. The ground-floor windows of the outer bays have stone panels below their sills. The central window above the porch is blind. At the far left there is a small inserted 1st floor window. The wide ashlar porch has 2 Tuscan columns in antis supporting raised segmental arches. Within the porch there are 2 sashed windows with segmental heads, flanking a doorway with a divided 4-panel door and an overlight with segmental top. The eaves are coved and sprocketed. Chimneys to left and right of centre in front of ridge. At the left there is a one-bay 2-storey link to a servants' wing. The front wall of this wing is of one bay, flanked by pilaster strips and with pivoting windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 69).
Listing NGR: SE5914052733

Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005

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Related event (UID 613515) INVESTIGATION BY RCHME/EH ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY Architectural Survey 14-NOV-1995 - 14-NOV-1995

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Record last edited

Aug 9 2019 11:57AM

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