Description

YORK

SE6051SW SKELDERGATE
1112-1/21/914 (South West side)
14/06/54 Lady Anne Middleton's Hotel and
attached garden walls
(Formerly Listed as:
SKELDERGATE
Middleton's Hospital)

GV II*

Formerly known as: The Ann Middleton Hospital SKELDERGATE.
Hospital, now hotel: wall and gate attached to north-east
corner bounding north side of front garden; wall attached to
north-west corner, now incorporated into hotel sun-lounge.
Walls form south-east side of Carr's Lane. Hospital dated
1829; renovated and altered 1973. By Peter Atkinson for The
Corporation of York as Trustees.
MATERIALS: pink mottled brick in Flemish bond on ashlar
plinth, with window arches of orange-red gauged brick; ashlar
doorcase and frontispiece, timber eaves cornice; 8 brick
stacks to hipped roof of Welsh slate. Garden walls of red and
dark brick, part in English garden-wall bond, part in random
bond; stone coping.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 7-bay front, 3 centre bays pedimented and
projecting slightly. 2 wide steps to central doorcase with
flat cornice hood on brackets and door of 8 raised and fielded
panels in plain architrave. First floor centre bay has
hemispherical niche in round-headed architrave between volutes
carved with anthemion, which contains painted carved figure of
the Foundress in Puritan dress. All windows are 16-pane sashes
with painted stone sills beneath flat arches of gauged brick,
those on ground floor recessed in blind panels. Modillion
eaves cornice, and plain cornice to pediment. Datestone in
pediment inscribed: "THIS HOSPITAL/ WAS BUILT AT THE/ EXPENSE
OF THE CORPORATION/ OF YORK ANNO 1829/ THE RIGHT HONble JOHN
DALES/ LORD MAYOR/ WILLm HOTHAM ESQr./ GEO PEACOCK ESQr.
WARDENS/ ISAAC SPENCER ESQr."
Rear: 16-pane sash windows. Paired modillion eaves cornice.
Original rainwater goods survive, with fluted bowl hoppers.
INTERIOR: cantilevered staircase with stone treads,
hollow-sided stick balusters, and ramped-up wrought-iron
handrail, wreathed at foot round column newel on shaped
curtail step.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: garden walls approximately 1.75 metres
high, stepped- and ramped-up to 2.0 metres approximately,
following slope of Carr's Lane. Part in front of building
interrupted by garden gate of railings with arrowhead tips;
part to rear incorporating segment-arched opening with boarded
door. Tooled flat coping.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Middleton's Hospital was founded in 1659, by
Mrs Anne Middleton, widow of Peter Middleton (Sheriff of York

in 1618). The carved figure of the Foundress over the door of
the present building may survive from the original hospital.
(City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-:
51).

Listing NGR: SE6019551410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lady Anne House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q108907102 Q17549398

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