Description

YORK

SE5952NE BOOTHAM
1112-1/7/88 (North East side)
19/08/71 No.65
The Churchill
(Formerly Listed as:
BOOTHAM
No.65
Record House)

GV II*

House, now hotel. c1827. Sandstone ashlar facade with white
brick side walls and red brick rear walls and chimneys. Hipped
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and cellars. Facade
symmetrical, of 2 storeys with one bay to each side of a bowed
centre, and with a plinth, a moulded 1st floor sill band, and
overhanging eaves. The windows are glazing bar sashes. Those
to the outer bays have architraves, with cornices to those on
the ground floor. The bowed centre has 3 windows on each
floor. Those on the ground floor have semicircular heads and
moulded imposts, and those on the 1st floor have architraves.
Rising above the centre of the roof is a timber lantern of
rectangular plan with 3 glazing bar sash windows facing
forwards and with a chimney at each of its 4 corners. The
left-hand return wall is of 3 bays and has glazing bar sash
windows with stone architraves. To the left of the entrance
there is a small window which is sashed without glazing bars.
A port-cochere is carried on square piers and has a plain
entablature. The door has 4 panels, and flanking lights. Set
back to the right there is a 3-storey bay of red brick which
is the side wall of a rear wing. It has glazing bar sash
windows. The right-hand return wall (facing north-east) is of
5 bays and has cellar windows.
At the rear of the building a small yard is enclosed by
single-storey outbuildings and by a brick wall which carries
cast-iron railings which have finials with anthemion ornament.
INTERIOR: the stair hall rises through the full height of the
building and is lit by the central lantern. The staircase has
cantilevered stone treads and has cantilevered 1st floor
landings on 2 sides. The cast-iron balustrading is enriched
with honeysuckle ornament. Below the lantern light there is a
band of richly moulded plasterwork with cornucopias and
foliage. The ground-floor room which occupies the central bow
has a curved white marble fireplace with sides decorated with
foliage patterns and with paterae on the frieze. The circular
border to the ceiling also has foliage decoration.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-:
62).

Listing NGR: SE5981952562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Churchill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17550059

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)