Description

YORK

SE5952NW OUSECLIFFE GARDENS
1112-1/6/821 St Hilda's Garth
24/06/83

II

House, now Family Resource Centre. Built in 1848 for Joseph
Munby (solicitor). Yellow brick with stone dressings. Hipped
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: main block symmetrical, of 2 storeys with a 3-bay
porch and one bay to each side. The windows are glazing bar
sashes. The ground-floor windows of the outer bays have stone
panels below their sills. The central window above the porch
is blind. At the far left there is a small inserted 1st floor
window. The wide ashlar porch has 2 Tuscan columns in antis
supporting raised segmental arches. Within the porch there are
2 sashed windows with segmental heads, flanking a doorway with
a divided 4-panel door and an overlight with segmental top.
The eaves are coved and sprocketed. Chimneys to left and right
of centre in front of ridge. At the left there is a one-bay
2-storey link to a servants' wing. The front wall of this wing
is of one bay, flanked by pilaster strips and with pivoting
windows with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
69).

Listing NGR: SE5914052733

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548429

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)