Description

YORK

SE5952SE MARYGATE
1112-1/12/628 (North West side)
No.48
St Olave's House

GV II

House, now house and flat. Late C17 with early C17 origins;
early C19 extension incorporating late C18 outbuilding:
refronted c1900; further C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: front of painted brick in Flemish bond, rear and
right return of orange-brown brick in stretcher bond;
extension of orange-grey brick in English garden-wall bond.
Front roof of slate, others pantile, with brick stacks: two
gabled dormer windows with scalloped bargeboards and
round-headed sashes in round-arched pilastered architraves.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window front. Shallow porch
with modillioned cornice has keyed segment-arched opening on
chamfered pilasters with moulded imposts: door is of 6 fielded
and incised panels within glazed and panelled screen. 2-storey
canted bay window with moulded cornice to left of door:
windows are 1-pane sashes with stone sills: moulded band of
roses over ground floor windows. Other windows are 1-pane
sashes with shaped lintels and painted sills, those on first
floor beneath relief moulded semicircular panels. Timber eaves
cornice inset with moulded ceramic tiles of rosettes with
leaves.
Rear: 2-storey 2-window range with 1-storey lean-to extension
in front: flanked by wing to left of 2 storeys with attic and
tumbled brick gable, 2-storey gabled wing to right. Centre
range has glazed and flush panelled door; on first floor two
casement windows, one of 6 panes, one of 2x6-panes. Left wing
has Yorkshire sash window on ground floor to right of blocked
opening with timber lintel. On first floor, unequal 9-pane
sash window with 1-course segmental brick arch: 2x6-pane
casement window with timber lintel to attic. 2-course raised
brick band at attic level. Right wing has full-height shallow
bow with french doors on ground floor and 4-light transomed
windows.
Right return: gable end of front range has tumbled brick
gable, small 1-pane light over 2-course raised brick band to
attic. To right, wing has window of 3x1-pane lights beneath
1-course segmental brick arch on ground floor: on first floor,
one 4-pane sash window and 3-course raised brick band.
INTERIOR: ground floor: door to rear hall in panelled screen
framed in moulded architrave with corner roundels. Front right
room retains fragments of original fireplace with stone
lintel; timber stud partition wall. Rear hall has stone
flagged floor, coved cornice and staircase arch of sunk-panel
pilasters with imposts. Rear room has moulded dado rail and
coved cornice over fluted frieze: painted stone fireplace in

surround carved with festoons and paterae has hob grate and
moulded and dentilled cornice shelf. Staircase to first floor
has concave sided stick balusters and serpentine moulded
handrail, wreathed at foot around turned newel. Staircase
window is round headed and margin glazed with hung shutter box
of beaded panelling in round-arched moulded surround. First
floor: landing has moulded cornice and plaster ceiling rose.
Front rooms have 6-panel doors: left room has plain stone
fireplace with hob grate; right room has plastered chimney
hood flanked by small windows, one blocked. Attic staircase
has close string, bulbous turned balusters, square newels with
attached half balusters and flat moulded handrail. Attics:
front range wall plates exposed at rear. 2-panel plank and
batten doors survive. Queen strut roof truss to right wing.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London:
1975-: 85).

Listing NGR: SE5983352206

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Olaves House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26548743

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