Description

YORK

SE6051NW NORTH STREET
1112-1/28/807 (West side)
No.15
The Other Tap and Spile Public House

II

Public house. Dated 1896, with some later remodelling. By WG
Penty. Red brick in English garden-wall bond, the basement
painted; painted stone dressings; stone coped gables to tiled
roof.
EXTERIOR: basement and 2 storeys, alternate bays with attic; 4
bays, articulated above basement by thin giant pilasters with
moulded imposts. Left of centre attic has shaped gable, right
end one shaped parapet, both with moulded coping. Entrance in
basement of left of centre bay has double doors each of 4
raised and fielded panels beneath flat hood on fluted console
brackets. To right, boarded cellar doors. At right end, tall
elliptical carriage arch, closed by ramped-up boarded double
gates. On ground floor, 3-light window over door, lighting
inner stairway, flanked by 3-light mullion and transom
windows. Similar window over carriage arch on first floor;
others of 2 lights. All windows are small-pane casements,
recessed beneath semicircular or segmental relieving arches.
On ground floor, pilaster bases continue on each side to form
moulded sill band; at first floor moulded impost band forms
sill band to first floor windows. In attic, pilaster imposts
linked by flat band, inscribed over left of centre bay with
date 1896.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A public house on the site was known from c1840 to c1980 as
The Yorkshire Hussar.
(Dissertation for MA in Architectural Building Conservation:
Davison Andrew P: "A Good House, fit for the purpose: Public
House Design in York": De Montfort University: 1993-: 81).

Listing NGR: SE6008351723

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548478

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)