York Historic Environment Record

House. 1833; altered c1930; restored 1992. Yellow brick with painted stone dressings. Hipped slate roof.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys above cellars and 3 bays, with the central bay projecting slightly. The outer bays have single-storey canted bay windows which have bracketed cornices and sashes without glazing bars. The base of the left-hand window is partly cut into by an inserted C20 cellar doorway. The 1st floor windows are glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick flat arches and a sill band. The timber porch has paired pilasters, and a modillioned cornice which forms the base of a balcony. This has cast-iron railings with anthemion decoration. The inner door has panelled reveals, and an overlight with margin panes. The eaves cornice is modillioned and includes a triangular pediment above the central bay. Chimneys to left and right.

INTERIOR: cellars: room at front left, formerly converted to garage, has wooden car turntable in situ. Ground floor: staircase to first floor has slender turned balusters and moulded handrail wreathed at foot around shaped curtail step. Original plaster work survives in all the main rooms. On first floor and attics some original fireplaces survive.

(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 127; ).
Listing NGR: SE5935650931

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

NMR Information

Summary description
127 The Mount. Yellow brick villa built in 1833. The building is of two storeys plus a basement.

613515 Architectural Survey Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey

BF060910 127 THE MOUNT, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

RCHME, 1972, RCHME City of York Volume III South-west of the Ouse (Monograph). SYO64.

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