Description

YORK

SE6050NE FULFORD ROAD
1112-1/25/350 (South West side)
21/04/94 No.124
The Lighthorseman Hotel

II

Public house. c1870. White brick in Flemish bond, front and
returns painted; rear of orange-brown brick in English
garden-wall bond; painted plinth; stone dressings; slate roof
with stone copings and corniced brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 8-bay front. At right of centre is hotel
entrance with door of 4 shaped and fielded panels and
segment-headed overlight, in pedimented doorcase of chamfered
pilasters with floral run-out stops and foliate imposts. At
left of centre, similar door to bar beneath segmental arch on
sunk-panel pilasters with moulded capitals and vermiculated
keyblock. At left end, 3 round-arched 1-pane windows,
separated by colonnettes with foliate capitals, have roundels
in their heads and continuous hoodmould with keyblock over
each window. Remaining 3 ground floor windows are round headed
sashes bordered in ruby flashed glass beneath keyed hoodmoulds
on corbel stops. On first floor are eight 1-pane sash windows
beneath brick arches with faceted keyblocks. Ground floor
windows have sill band over sunk-panel aprons, sill band
returning at right end: also heavy console cornice over ground
floor. Double frieze with consoles to eaves returns on both
gable ends. Left return: 4-bay gable end with curved corner
bay. Street front detailing repeated on paired ground floor
windows between panelled door to left and curved door to
right, and to first floor sash windows.
INTERIOR: original plan with spacious tap room, snug, side
lounge and upstairs function room survives. Tap room retains
panelled bar and mirrored backfitting.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the pub had longstanding associations with
the nearby cavalry barracks for which it is named.

Listing NGR: SE6077050848

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549126

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