Dents Cottage And Railings To Street

Dents Cottage and its street railings are a house, likely dating from the 18th century or earlier, and remodelled between 1830 and 1850 by H.F. Lockwood of Hull for Joseph Dent. The construction is of rendered limestone rubble and brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, topped with a plain tile roof. Cast-iron railings run along the street, supported by ashlar piers.

The house is arranged with two rooms, a central lobby with entrances on opposite sides, and a kitchen extension to the east. It is built in a Gothick style. The south-facing garden front has two storeys and three bays, with a single-storey, two-bay extension to the right. Notable features include a moulded plinth and stepped buttresses at the corners and flanking the entrance bay. The enclosed porch has a chamfered Tudor-arched entrance with a hoodmould, dripstone, and a low, stone-coped gabled roof. The inner door is partly glazed, featuring a pointed top and Gothick-style traceried panels, with shields displaying the carved Dent family arms and motto "Patentia et Perseverentia". Recessed window bays on either side have moulded reveals and twin cinquefoiled lancet windows with glazing bars to each floor, separated by roundels bearing the carved letters "I D". Hoodmoulds are above the windows, featuring a square flower moulding and curled stops, linked to a string course below a coped parapet. The parapet rises to a steep gable with a carved finial above the entrance bay. The buttresses have pinnacles with gabled finials, and the coped gables have similar pinnacles rising from corbelled wall-shafts at the gable ends. A central chimney stack has four octagonal shafts. The right-hand extension has three casements, two in chamfered reveals, a door to the right, and a low-pitched roof with a tall central octagonal chimney (an ornate chimney top now resides in the garden).

The street front has similar detailing to the garden front: a plinth, buttresses, a traceried-panelled door in a moulded arch and chamfered reveal with a hoodmould, twin ground-floor lancets in reveals with hoodmoulds, a similar first-floor window above the entrance, a string course, and a parapet. Gothick-style railings flank the entrance and extend between chamfered ashlar posts across the street front of the cottage. The interior has not been inspected.

Joseph Dent, of Ribstone Hall, York, embellished the cottage and erected a tomb in the garden (listed separately) in memory of his father, Jonathan Dent, a Quaker and a noted Winterton eccentric.