Description

YORK

SE5950NW DRIFFIELD TERRACE
1112-1/24/298 (South East side)
Nos.5, 6 AND 7
and attached railings, walls and
gate piers

GV II

Three houses, now flats and hotel. c1860. Stucco with slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and cellars. The north-west
facade has 3 sill bands; the cornices of the ground-floor
windows are extended as a band, and there is a
deeply-projecting bracketed timber eaves cornice. The windows
have segmental heads and sashes which are divided into large
square panes. Those to No.7 also have margin panes. The
facades of Nos 5 and 6 form a mirrored symmetrical composition
of 2-3-2 windows. At ground and first floor level the paired
windows to the outer bays have surrounds which project
forwards under a cornice. The 3 central windows on the 1st
floor have semicircular heads. At ground floor level these 3
central bays have doorways to each side of a central window,
which forms part of No.6. The recessed doors have 2 over 3
panels and the plain overlights have segmental heads. No.7, at
the right, has 2 bays facing north-west. The right-hand window
on the ground floor has a raised surround with cornice. Nos 5
and 6 each have 2 attic dormers, and No.7 has one dormer; all
have segmental tops. Chimneys to left and right and between
houses. The right-hand return wall forms the entrance facade
to No.7. The eaves cornice rises as a broken pediment above
the central part, which projects forwards slightly. The outer
parts of the facade are blank except for 2 storey bands, a
round-headed fixed-light window to the left on the ground
floor, and a similar blind recess to the right. In the centre
on the 1st floor there are 3 round-headed glazing bar sashes
separated by pilasters and with moulded archivolts. At 2nd
floor level there is a round-headed window with a cornice hood
on console brackets, with a small inserted window to its left.
Within the broken pediment there is a round-headed attic
window. At ground-floor level there is a single-storey porch
with a plain cornice which is moulded and dentilled above the
doorway and which has a blocking course. The overlight has
margin panes, and to each side of the doorway there are narrow
round-headed sashed windows without glazing bars.
The garden facades, facing south-east, have 3-window bows to
both No.5 and No.6, and a canted bay window to No.7; all are
of 2 storeys above a cellar. Nos 6 and 7 each have a
round-topped dormer, and No.5 has 2 flat-roofed C20 dormers.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: on the north-west side the deep basement
area is enclosed by cast-iron railings on a low stone coping.

On the south-east side plain railings link Nos 5 and 6 to a
low wall of squared limestone with sandstone copings
supporting cast-iron railings and containing 2 pairs of ashlar
gate piers with cast-iron gates. The piers are cylindrical
above octagonal bases and have an annular groove below a cap
which is carved to resemble a section of fluted Greek Doric
column.
Nos 5, 6 and 7 Driffield Terrace form, with Nos 1, 2 and 3
(qv), the two end blocks of an incomplete terrace developme@

Listing NGR: SE5927850958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549205

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)