Wyke House

PATRINGTON GREENSHAW LANE TA 3022-3122 (west side) 15/43 No 36 (Wyke House) - II

House. Mid C18 with C19 alterations and C20 addition to rear. Red brick in English garden wall bond; concrete tile roof. Plan: 3 rooms with central lobby entry, stairhall to centre left. 2 storey, 4 bays; symmetrical. Mid- late C19 doorcase with panelled and fluted pilasters, entablature with dentilled cornice and hood; ornate panelled door and plain overlight in panelled reveal. 12-pane ground-floor sashes in wooden architraves with sills and C19 keyed stucco flat arches. First floor: similar sashes beneath original painted rubbed-brick flat arches. C19 wooden eaves board and bracketed gutter. Tumbled-in brick to gables with C19 stone coping. C20 axial stack and end stack to right. Attic window to left return with C20 glazing. Interior: open well staircase with ramped handrail and column balusters, moulded cornice to stairhall; room to rear right with ribbed cornice and frieze, elliptical-arched alcoves flanking fireplace, and doors in architrave with roundel ornament and cornices; panelled window shutters and doors in architraves; not fully investigated. Formerly known as Greenshaw House; John Greenshaw was living here in 1768. Victoria County History: York, East Riding, vol 5, 1984, p 100.

Listing NGR: TA3137522459