York House

York House is a Grade II listed office building located on the north side of Borough Road in Middlesbrough. It was constructed in 1937-1938 by architects Graham Dawbarn from London and Kitching & Co from Middlesbrough for the Joseph Constantine Shipping Co., Ltd. The building features a steel frame with brick cladding and imitation stone dressings, and it has a flat roof that is concealed by a parapet. Designed in the Jacobethan style, it is two storeys tall with a deeply-recessed attic storey and consists of five bays.

The central entrance has glazed double doors with an overlight and sidelights, set within a slightly-shouldered surround made up of five moulded orders. Above the doorway is a shouldered tablet with a raised moulded border, linenfold decoration, and the Constantine arms. Flanking the entrance are two-storey canted bay windows with heavily-moulded plinths. The building features hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows with leaded glazing in double-chamfered surrounds, presenting Tudor arches on the first floor, with five-light windows in the middle and canted bays, and two-light windows in the end bays. A broad square-panelled band, decorated with quatrefoils in lozenges, runs between the floors, and there are continuous hoodmoulds above the windows. The straight parapet has moulded copings, and there are two stacks, each with three corniced octagonal shafts, attached to the front of the flat-roofed attic storey.

The right return of the building has similar windows and brick-panelled aprons beneath the first-floor windows. The rear of the building features a three-stepped stair window with Tudor-headed lights. Inside, the stair hall is adorned with deep dado panelling, and the oak open-well staircase includes a closed string, spiral-twist balusters, chamfered square newels, and a moulded handrail that is ramped at the ends. The staircase hall also has parged plasterwork. A late 20th-century rear extension is noted but is not considered of special interest.