Building record MYO1709 - St Catherines (NUMBER 11 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS)

Summary

St Catherine’s, a Grade II Listed townhouse dating from the 1830s. This is the current headmaster’s residence and has been in the ownership of St. Peter's School since the late 1940s.

Location

Grid reference SE 5970 5258 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Civil Parish York, City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

House with attached railings. c1832. Railings by William Walker of Walmgate. Grey brick. Welsh slate roof. Exterior: 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays; one-storey, one-bay side wing on left. Pedimented wooden porch to bay 2 encloses 4-panel door. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays; one-storey, one-bay side wing on left. Pedimented wooden porch to bay 2 encloses 4-panel door; other bays and 1st floor have projecting sills to sashes with glazing bars under flat arches. Overhanging eaves; inserted dormer over bay one; yellow-brick end stacks. Side-wing on left has small sash with glazing bars under recessed panel and coped parapet which conceals lean-to roof. Rear: round-headed stair window. INTERIOR: stairhall has diamond-shaped paving with black inserts; three mahogany 6-panel doors in simple architraves; contemporary staircase with wave-form iron balusters to coiled handrail on newel post. Ground-floor rooms on right have differing cavetto/fluted ceiling cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front railings set in quadrant plinth walls flank the porch and have fine bars set between cylindrical posts linked by chains; square, open-sided, end piers. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 67).
Listing NGR: SE5970452584

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

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Record last edited

Sep 19 2019 2:26PM

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