Building record MYO714 - TOFT GREEN CHAMBERS
Summary
Location
Grid reference | SE 5972 5156 (point) |
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Map sheet | SE55SE |
Civil Parish | York, City of York, North Yorkshire |
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Full Description
Pair of houses, now offices. c1845. By GT Andrews for the York and North Midland Railway Company. Front of pink-cream mottled brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar doorcases; side walls of red-grey brick in English bond; timber eaves cornice. Single brick stack in centre of slate roof. EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; 5-bay front. At each end of front, doorcase of pilasters with moulded imposts and entablature, and 4-panel door beneath divided overlight. All windows are 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, windows on second floor being squat: centre window on each floor is blind. All windows have flat arches of rubbed brick, and all except those on first floor have painted stone sills: raised sill band to first floor windows. Bold eaves cornice is carried on shaped brackets and returns across side walls forming cornice to pedimented gable ends. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Murray H: Nathaniel Whittock's Bird's-eye View of the City of York in 1850: York: 1988-: 42-43; City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 130).
Listing NGR: SE5972551560
Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005
The york central audit of heritgae assets report mentions that the chambers were demolished between 1961 and 2012.
Dr Bill Fawcett, John A Ives and Alison Sinclair, 2013, YORK CENTRAL AUDIT OF HERITAGE ASSETS,NOVEMBER 2013 (Report). SYO1457.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SYO1457 Report: Dr Bill Fawcett, John A Ives and Alison Sinclair. 2013. YORK CENTRAL AUDIT OF HERITAGE ASSETS,NOVEMBER 2013.
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Record last edited
Sep 30 2014 5:24PM