York Historic Environment Record

House, now hotel and public house. Late C18 with C20 alterations. Painted render and roughcast over brick. Slate roof.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and 3 bays, with full-width gable facing the road. The facade has a storey band above the ground floor and sill bands to the first and second floor windows. The ground floor has two C20 window openings with rounded upper corners, and a similar doorway between them. The windows to the upper storeys are glazing bars sashes (3 over 3 panes on the 2nd floor) with timber architraves and cornices. The attic is lit by a Venetian window. The gable has concrete copings, and a shaped semicircular apex.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London: 1975-: 54). Listing NGR: SE6009152294

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

Exhibition Hotel, No. 19, was built in the late 18th century as a fairly large house, which was occupied in the last decade of the century by James Fenton and after 1800 by Lady Royds (Rate Books); it had certainly become a hotel by 1872 (Benson, iii, 166) and the name probably commemorates the Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1866. The street front has been remodelled in modern times but its earlier state can be seen in watercolours by R. Dighton (c. 1815) and C. Dillon (c. 1840) (Evelyn Collection, YCL); the interior has been altered.

The house is of three storeys with attics with a brick gable to the rear above storeys defined by brick bands. The interior has been stripped of original fittings but the main lines of the plan can be recognised; the entrance was to one side, leading to a staircase placed transversely in the middle of the house, and at the back two rooms flanked a central passage.

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London: 1975-: 54. Monument 36

NMR Information

BF060383 EXHIBITION HOTEL, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

613515 Architectural Survey Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey

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

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