Description

YORK

SE6052SW MINSTER YARD
1112-1/27/709 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.6
(Formerly Listed as:
MINSTER YARD
No.6
(Old Residence))

GV II*

House, now school. Early C18, raised and re-roofed 1786; small
late C19 extension.
MATERIALS: front and right return painted render, possibly
Portland cement, on painted chamfered plinth incised to
resemble ashlar; painted stone dressings; timber doorcase and
cornice: rear of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond
on basement of squared limestone; slate hipped roof with
rendered brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; 5-bay front: 2-storey 1-bay
extension to right. Flight of stone steps leads to front door
of 8 raised panels and radial fanlight recessed in moulded
architrave: plain doorcase with moulded and dentilled cornice
hood on consoles. Ground floor windows are 12-pane sashes with
painted stone sills and sunk-panel shutters. First floor
windows are unequal 15-pane sashes, over sunk-panel aprons:
centre window has apron flanked by pedestals with ball finials
and pediment hood on consoles. Attic windows are squat 6-pane
sashes. Prominent moulded modillioned cornice, returned at
right end to fluted inverted bell rainwater head, and
continued without modillions across right return. First and
second floor bands. Extension has splayed corners and right
return has 12-pane sash windows on both floors, segment-headed
on ground floor, in painted stone architraves with sills.
Raised first floor band; moulded and modillioned cornice.
Rear: basement and 3 storeys, 4 bays, left end bay slightly
projecting. Off-centre panelled door and small window beneath
guttering inscribed: 'This house repair'd and the roof new
slated in the year 1786'. Above door, tall radial-glazed sash
window in round-arched opening. Ground and first floor windows
to right are 12-pane sashes, to left 16-pane sashes, all with
1-course segmental brick arches. Second floor windows are
squat 6-pane sashes. 5-course raised brick bands to first and
second floors: brick dentil eaves cornice below boxed
guttering. Composite rainwater head dated 1783 in re-entrant
with left bay, and fall pipe with crossed key clamps.
INTERIOR: brick vaulted cellars. Ground floor. Entrance hall:
stone flagged floor; semicircular stairhall arch on fluted
pilasters with imposts and radial-glazed fanlight in the head.
Main staircase has open string, slender turned balusters and
serpentine handrail wreathed at foot around turned newel on
shaped curtail step; moulded dado rail to well; half-landing

window in moulded surround. Secondary staircase to second
floor has close string, square newels and flat moulded
handrail. Left front room: panelled on four walls above dado
rail; painted wood fireplace with eared surround and
overmantel panel, and pulvinated frieze; dentilled cornice.
Left rear room: panelled as front room; fireplace in eared
surround with enriched cornice shelf on foliate brackets;
overmantel panel flanked by fluted pilasters with triglyph
frieze and broken pediment; modillioned ceiling cornice;
panelled shutters. First floor. Landing: two doorcases with
eared architraves; main one with door of 6 raised and fielded
panels recessed in semicircular arch on plain pilasters with
imposts; moulded ceiling cornice.
Large front room: distyle in antis screen of cast-iron columns
with foliate capitals, and moulded frieze; fireplace with
eared architrave, sunk panel jambs and enriched moulded shelf
has altered grate in late C19 tiled slips; doorcases have
fasciated architraves and cornice heads; panelled window
reveals; moulded ceiling cornice. Smaller front room: plain
marble fireplace and lincrusta dado. Rear left room,
sub-divided: moulded dado rail and cornice; fireplace in eared
moulded surround enriched with egg-and-dart, and moulded
cornice shelf.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 163).

Listing NGR: SE6041852161

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Old Residence at Wikipedia
• Old Residence at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q109256530 Q17549666

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)