Description

YORK

SE65SW HUNTINGTON ROAD
1112-1/2/513 (West side)
24/06/83 St Mary's House
(Formerly Listed as:
HUNTINGTON ROAD
Former Residential block of the
former Grange Hospital (now St
Mary's))

GV II

Workhouse, now student flats. 1848-49, renovated 1994. By JB
and W Atkinson. Orange-cream brick in English garden-wall
bond; slate roofs, shallow pitched and hipped with wide eaves,
carried on shaped brackets over gable ends. Two parallel
ranges, front one longer than the rear.
EXTERIOR: front: 3 storeys, 21 windows arranged 3:2:4:3:4:2:3:
alternate blocks project but are linked on ground floor by
1-storey ranges set forward so that the centre block is
recessed: at each end are 5-bay wings, 1 storey to left, 3
storeys to right. Centre block has panelled double doors
beneath radial fanlight recessed in round arch of 2 orders,
flanked by radial glazed sashes similarly recessed; outer
3-window blocks have 1-storey canted bay windows with French
doors. Except where radial glazed sashes are indicated,
windows are small pane sashes, those on first floor generally
of unequal sashes. Ground and first floor window arches are
segmental, except in 5-bay wings which are cambered arches on
ground floor; on second floor, all arches are cambered. Centre
block windows on first and second floors have a sill band;
otherwise windows have stone sills, some painted, some
renewed.
Rear: 19 bays arranged 3:1:4:3:4:1:3, the 3 centre bays
canted: to left and right of centre are 1-storey 3-bay hipped
roofed outbuildings, at each end 1-storey wings. Single window
bays have staircase windows at two levels, the lower
segment-arched 30-pane sashes, the upper radial glazed 24-pane
windows with pivoting centre sections. Otherwise fenestration
in main block generally repeats that of front range.
Outbuildings have 18-pane sashes with cambered arches: wing at
left end has 16-pane sashes with timber lintels.
Left and right returns: returns of shorter rear range are
gabled over full height round-arched recess with fire door on
each floor opening on to fire escape stairs.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Plans for 1994 refurbishment show the
survival of staircase in octagonal stairwell, apparently top
lit, recorded by RCHM.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
51).

Listing NGR: SE6083253035

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548894

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)