Purey Cust Chambers

Purey Cust Chambers is a building that served as the new residence for the Canons Residentiary of York Minster and is now part of Purey Cust Hospital. It was constructed between 1824 and 1825 by R.H. Sharp for the Dean and Chapter. The building is made of magnesian limestone ashlar and features a stone-coped slate roof with ashlar stacks, designed in a Gothick style.

The exterior consists of two storeys and attics, set on a moulded stone plinth, and is supported by two-stage setback buttresses. The façade has three gabled bays, with a flight of stone steps leading up to a glazed and flush panel door that has a 4-centred head within a casement-moulded square-headed surround, adorned with carved spandrels and flanked by dwarf buttresses. The flanking windows feature three ogee-arched lights with mouchette tracery in a square head, and all ground floor openings are topped with tall return stopped hoodmoulds.

On the first floor, the central window is a semicircular oriel with three 8-pane sash windows, a deep frieze, and a moulded cornice. The outer windows match those on the ground floor and all have a moulded sill string. The attic windows are square-headed with hoodmoulds; the center window has three altered lights, while the outer windows each contain one light with a 4-centred head and a moulded string.

The right return of the building has two storeys and an attic, with five bays and a gabled centre bay. On the left side of the ground floor, there is a one-storey flat-roofed porch that projects forward. This porch has a former door that has been altered into a tall window with two mullioned and transomed pointed lights, topped with a moulded parapet. To the right of the porch is a half-glazed door with a tall overlight. The windows are generally paired lancets, with those on the ground floor featuring transoms, square heads, and hoodmoulds, while the first-floor windows have a moulded sill string. Above the porch on the first floor, there is a two-leaf glazed and panelled door, and a 20th-century two-light window is present in the attic gable. The attic is also adorned with a moulded string. The interior has not been inspected.