Building record MYO765 - NUMBER 37 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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Location
| Grid reference | SE 5992 5170 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SE55SE |
| Civil Parish | York, City of York, North Yorkshire |
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Type and Period (4)
- HOTEL (c1850, Early 19th Century to Late 19th Century - 1830 AD to 1870 AD)
- RAILINGS (c1850, Early 19th Century to Late 19th Century - 1830 AD to 1870 AD)
- HOTEL (C20, Late 19th Century to 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
- SERVICE WING (c1850, Early 19th Century to Late 19th Century - 1830 AD to 1870 AD)
Full Description
Hotel, with basement area railings attached at front; now offices. c1850, with C20 alteration. Red brick in Flemish bond with painted stone doorcase and dressings; boldly projecting timber cornice on modillion consoles, returned at left end; double span roof of slate, hipped at left end, with brick stacks. Railings of painted cast-iron on stone plinth. EXTERIOR: basement and 4 storeys; 9-window front. Basement windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills and plain impost band stepped and chamfered over windowheads to form lintels. Central portico of detached rusticated Tuscan columns surmounted by balcony balustrade of bulbous balusters: double doors each of 3 raised and fielded panels under plain fanlight in round-arched doorcase of alternately long and short voussoirs. On ground floor, windows are 4-pane sashes over moulded sill band; on first floor, of 3 lights with centre casements and brick sills; on second and third floors, 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, squatter on third floor, those on second floor over plain sill band and on third floor over moulded sill band. All windows have flat arches of gauged brick. On first floor, cantilevered balcony with moulded arris survives, without balustrade. Rear: at right angles to front range, 1-storey service wing with three 16-pane sash windows with stone sills and flat arches of brick. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front railings and standards on low plinth are turned, railings with conical tips, standards with acanthus bud finials. Building was originally 'The George Hotel', latterly 'The North Eastern'. (Murray H: Nathaniel Whittock's Bird's-eye View of the City of York in 1850: York: 1988-: 43).
Listing NGR: SE5992251708
Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005
The building was the north eastern hotel constructed in 1854-5, pursdhased by North Eastern Railway in 1899 and adapted as offices. Now No.37, tanner row
Dr Bill Fawcett, John A Ives and Alison Sinclair, 2013, YORK CENTRAL AUDIT OF HERITAGE ASSETS,NOVEMBER 2013 (Report). SYO1457.
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- --- 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