Building record MYO925 - NUMBERS 15, 16 AND 17 WILTON RISE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS

Summary

Brick-built, double-pile terraced house built in 1877 as part of a speculative development by George Brown, a York solicitor. Its principal interest lies in the remarkable late nineteenth century painted wall decoration.

Location

Grid reference SE 5912 5139 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire
Civil Parish York, City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (6)

Full Description

Terrace of 3 houses. Mid C19. Brick with painted stone dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellars. Each house 2 bays. Sashes throughout, those to Nos 15 and 17, 4-pane with glazing bars, those to No.16, 2-pane. Each house has a canted bay window on the ground floor, with a modillion cornice and with a brick base which has a casement cellar window. The 1st floor windows have a sill band. No.17 has an attic dormer. Nos 16 and 17 have doorways in their right-hand bays, with pilaster doorcases which have modillioned cornices, 4-panel doors, and overlights. The overlight to No.17 has margin panes. The gutter is carried on rectangular timber brackets. Chimneys at left, and between houses in front of ridge. The right-hand return wall of No.15 has 4 bays and is treated similarly. In its 3rd bay it has a single-storey canted bay window with modillioned cornice, and in its 2nd bay a doorcase and 4-panel door similar to those to Nos 16 and 17. The attic is lit by a shallow flat-roofed C20 dormer. Chimney to right. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the garden front wall is of brick with stone and artificial stone copings. The wall to No.15 carries iron railings with cast finials and terminates at the east end against an iron gate with cast-iron gateposts. No.16 has a similar gate, and restored railings. No.17 has a low iron gate and gateposts, and a wall and coping without railings which returns at the north-west end to form the division between the gardens of Nos 17 and 18.
Listing NGR: SE5912351396

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

NMR Iformation:

No further description provided.

Related event: (UID 613515) INVESTIGATION BY RCHME/EH ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY
Architectural Survey
14-NOV-1995 - 14-NOV-1995

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Aug 27 2019 1:19PM

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