Building record MYO1110 - 62-66 Monkgate

Summary

Terrace of 3 houses. c1840. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof.

Location

Grid reference Centred SE 6076 5240 (37m by 27m)
Map sheet SE65SW
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Terrace of 3 houses. c1840. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic. Each house 2 bays. The facade has a stone plinth, and a continuous moulded sill band to the 1st floor windows, which have architraves with cornices and pulvinated friezes. Each house has the brickwork of its upper storeys recessed to form a sunken panel around its windows, and within these panels each house has a 2nd floor sill band. There is a timber gutter cornice. The windows are 12-pane glazing bar sashes, and each house has a flat-roofed attic dormer. Each house has a single ground-floor window with a doorway to its right which has a round-arched surround with rusticated blocks and moulded imposts. The doors have 6 raised and fielded panels, and fanlights above. Chimneys on gables and between houses. 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-: 91).
Listing NGR: SE6076452401

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

Nos. 62–66 (even) are a terrace of three-storey houses dating from the 1840s, built possibly by John Shaftoe, builder (Directories). The doorways have round-headed surrounds with rusticated blocks.

'Houses: Monkgate', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse (London, 1975), pp. 87-91. Monument 285

NMR Information

List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest District of York, 14-MAR-1997

BF060884 62-66 MONKGATE, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.


RCHME, 1975, RCHME Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse (Monograph). SYO2424.

NMR, 2019, NMR data (Digital archive). SYO2214.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Digital archive: NMR. 2019. NMR data.
  • --- Monograph: RCHME. 1975. RCHME Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse.

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Record last edited

Nov 10 2020 4:11PM

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