Description

YORK

SE6052SE MONKGATE
1112-1/14/734 (North West side)
14/06/54 No.37

GV II

House, now offices. c1847 with remains dating from 1794.
Probably by GT Andrews for Joseph Buckle. Brick in Flemish
bond with stone plinth and some painted stone dressings.
Hipped slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys. The Monkgate facade is divided into
2 by giant pilasters with stone bases and caps, which rise
from a 1st floor sill band. It has a stone plinth and a
moulded gutter cornice. The right-hand half of the facade is a
remodelling of the 1794 building and is of 4 storeys with 2
glazing bar sash windows on each floor. The 2nd floor windows
have a sill band. The left-hand half of the facade is of 3
storeys and has one glazing bar sash window to each upper
floor and a 2nd floor sill band. On the ground floor there is
a painted stone doorway with flanking lights under an
entablature with a central pediment, carried on pilasters. The
plain piers to each side of the door formerly had Ionic
columns. The door has 4 panels and the rectangular overlight
is divided into 3 panes. Chimneys near centre of ridge and in
front of ridge at right. The left-hand return facade is of 3
storeys plus attic and 5 bays, divided into 3 panels by
pilaster strips. It includes a central round-headed stair
window rising through the ground and first floors.
INTERIOR: RCHM records entrance hall, now partitioned, has
Ionic columned screen and stone staircase with ornate
cast-iron balustrade with moulded wooden handrail c1847.
Secondary stair c1794.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York:
Edinburgh: 1980-: 263; An Inventory of the Historical
Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls
East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 88).

Listing NGR: SE6069352403

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548604

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2