Description

YORK

SE6052SW GOODRAMGATE
1112-1/27/410 (East side)
14/06/54 Nos.49 AND 51
The Wealden Hall

GV I

Formerly known as: Nos.37 AND 38 GOODRAMGATE.
Shop and offices. c1500; restored, new shopfronts installed
and cross wing extended 1930-31 by Brierley and Rutherford.
Timber-framed with plaster or rendered infill; hall partly
restored in orange brick in English garden-wall bond, extended
in same brick in stretcher bond: pantile roofs with rebuilt
brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: front range 2 bays of 4-bay range shared with No.47
(qv); 4-bay Wealden Hall behind, separately framed. 3-storey
2-bay front with exposed timber-frame. First and second floors
are jettied, second floor jetty dropped at left end to form
oriel window supported on renewed coved brackets: first floor
jetty plate moulded and embattled. Ground floor has rebated
passage opening beneath porch and two shopfronts with glazed
and panelled doors and plate glass windows. On upper floors,
windows are square latticed casements, of 2 lights on first
floor, 6 lights to oriel and 3 lights on second floor. Post on
first floor has plastered head dated 1700, initialled IAT.
Wealden Hall: 2-storey front; 2-bay hall flanked by 1-bay
crosswings with jettied first floors. Wing to left has board
door in shouldered opening and two 2-light casement windows on
first floor: wing to right has mullioned windows on ground
floor and transomed window on first floor. Hall has two
full-height mullioned windows, of 6 lights and 3 lights; coved
eaves to oversailing wall plate. Windows have square lattice
glazing and mullions are diamond-section.
INTERIOR: framing is complete though heavily restored.
The Wealden Hall is a rare northern example of a medieval
building type more usually found in the south of England. This
is also a very good example of early C20 restoration, here
carried out by the important local architects Brierley and
Rutherford.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 138-140).

Listing NGR: SE6047852094

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Wealden Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17530628

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