Peaseholme House

Peaseholme House is a house, now offices, dating to 1752, with a restoration in 1975. It was likely designed by John Carr for Robert Heworth and later restored for the York Civic Trust. The front is built of orange brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring quoins and stone dressings. The doorcase is of painted stone. The rear and side elevations are of buff brick in an English garden-wall bond. A timber cornice and brick stacks rise from the hipped tiled roof.

The building is three storeys high with a basement, and has a five-bay quoined front. A flight of steps leads to the front door, which consists of eight raised and fielded panels within an engaged Ionic column doorcase, supporting an entablature and reconstructed pediment. The basement, ground floor, and first floor windows are 12-pane sashes. The second-floor windows are squat 6-pane sashes, the ground, first, and second floor windows have sill bands, and all are topped with flat arches of gauged brick with stone keyblocks. Raised bands define the ground and first floors. A prominent dentil and modillion cornice is returned on the left side. The rear has a Venetian staircase window with a radially glazed central sash in a round arch, flanked by narrow sashes with stone lintels. Other rear windows match the front, with gauged brick arches lacking keyblocks. Broad brick bands delineate each floor, and are found at the eaves, supported by brackets. The right return features two levels of tall, unequal sash windows towards the rear.

The interior ground floor entrance hall has eared doorcases with dentilled cornices and walls with plain sunk panelling and a moulded cornice. A plain stone fireplace is also present. The front left-hand room contains a fine plaster ceiling, originally from Bishophill House. A fluted Ionic screen with a bayleaf frieze and entablature separates the room from the stairhall. The open-string staircase has turned balusters and a serpentine handrail, wreathed at the foot around a bulbous newel and rises to the first floor with a moulded dado rail. A staircase window is framed by fluted Doric pilasters and an entablature with a dentil cornice. Most rooms retain moulded dado rails, cornices, and fireplaces.