York Historic Environment Record

c. late C18 house of brick, rendered at the front. Pantile roof with central chimney stack and deep eaves. 1st floor timber sash windows, 3 over 6. Large garden to rear extends to The Green.

Previously a private asylum.
Attached photographs and survey are derived from the 2018 Acomb Buildings Survey.


This building appears on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map as Acomb House. The name was later transferred to 23 Front Street and the house was renumbered 99 (also known as Limetrees), to the right, and 101 (Newbury House). Acomb House served as a private asylum until 1859. Following this the name changed to Lime Tree House. One of their inmates was Edward Tennyson, the brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate. Born in 1813 he was diagnosed at the age of 19 and was sent to York, ostensibly to study medicine. In fact he spent the rest of his life in a number of private asylums, latterly in the care of John Nelson of Acomb. He died in 1890, aged 77. He is buried in St Stephen's churchyard. (Acomb History Group)