Description

YORK

SE6051NW KING'S COURT
1112-1/28/519 (North West side)
14/06/54 Nos.5 AND 6

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos 5 and 6 and No.5 PUMP COURT KING'S
COURT.
House, now offices. Rear ranges C16, front block mid C18,
rebuilt and restored 1951. Front of orange-brown brick in
Flemish bond, with timber eaves cornice; pantile roofs with
brick stack. Rear ranges timber-framed, ground and first
floors now encased in pink mottled brick in stretcher bond,
second floor infilling rendered.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 5-bay front. Central 6-panel door with
radial fanlight in pilastered round-arched architrave recessed
in panelled reveals of Doric doorcase of attached columns,
triglyph frieze blocks, dentilled cornice and open pediment.
All windows are 12-pane sashes with narrow stone sills and
flat arches of brick. 3-course raised brick second floor band.
Dentilled eaves frieze beneath moulded modillion cornice.
Elaborate rainwater heads to left, dated 1951, initialled YC,
and to right, dated 1755, initialled HR: square section
rainwater goods on rosette clamps. Left return: 3 storeys 6
bays, with moulded bressumers to first and second floor
jetties. Towards right end, glazed and panelled door to left
of cantilevered bay window with small-pane glazing; towards
left end panelled door to right of unequal 6-pane sash window.
Other windows are 2x9-pane horizontal sliding sashes. Windows
on first floor are paired 12-pane sashes with 8-pane sash at
left end; on second floor, 1-, 2- and 3-light 6-pane
casements. Minimal framing exposed on ground and first floors.
INTERIOR: stone-walled cellar retains squat posts with massive
jowled heads raised on lime-washed quatrefoil column drums on
square bases, and chamfered axial and transverse beams.
Substantial remains of framing survive on upper floors of rear
range bays adjacent to front block.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 150).

Listing NGR: SE6043251923

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 5 and 6, Kings Court at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26548865

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