Description

YORK

SE5952NW WATER END
1112-1/6/1179 (North West side)
24/06/83 No.28
The White House
(Formerly Listed as:
WATER END
No.28
Green Tree Cottage)

II

Public house, now house. Early C19, altered C20. Painted
roughcast with exposed brick side walls. Slate M-roof, with 2
gables facing road.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 main bays, with one below each gable.
The ground-floor windows project on timber brackets and have
slated pentices. They are of 3 lights with timber mullions.
The main 1st floor windows are of 3 lights with a transom and
have casements. In the centre there is a small casement
window. The central doorway has a roughcast chamfered
Tudor-arched surround, and a slated pentice on shaped timber
brackets. The door is partly glazed. The gable verges project.
Chimneys to left and right, with tall partly-rendered caps.
History.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The building was called the Green Tree in 1830 and kept by
George Holgate. In 1836 it was called the Sycamore Inn and
kept by Alice Holgate.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
68).

Listing NGR: SE5913452961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547794

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey