64 AND 66, CLIFTON

YORK

SE5952NE CLIFTON 1112-1/7/197 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.64 AND 66

GV II*

House. Late C17 with C16 remains, restored 1962. Brick with rendered dressings and with internal remains of timber-frame. Roof pantiled with lower courses of plain tile. Artisan mannerist style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic. The facade has 2 wide shaped curved gables, and a narrower gable at the left over a porch bay. There are 2 rendered moulded string courses, and the brickwork of the upper storeys is fully rusticated with channelled rustication. The windows have leaded glazing and are a mixture of C20 steel and timber casements. Under both main gables there are 2-storey canted bay windows on rendered moulded brick corbelling and with tiled roofs. The windows have rendered surrounds and mullions and have 2 lights facing forwards and one to each side. Within both main gables there is an attic window of 2 chamfered mullioned lights. The 1st floor window of the porch has a rendered chamfered surround. On the ground floor the outer porch doorway has a Tudor-arched head and a surround which is rendered to simulate stone dressings, with quoins, impost blocks, and a shaped lintel. The inner door is re-used and of pine with geometrical panelling. The gables have finials. INTERIOR: RCHM records C17 brick fireplaces with arched heads, and an C18 fitted corner cupboard. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 66).

Listing NGR: SE5952752832