19 and 21, Blossom Street is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. House. 17 related planning applications.

19 and 21, Blossom Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
York
Constituency
York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1954
Type
House
Address
19 and 21, Blossom Street, YO24 1AQ
OS grid reference
SE 597 513
Coordinates
53.95506, -1.09157
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

19 and 21 Blossom Street are two houses that were later used as a chaplains' residence and are now part of a convent and Pastoral Centre. Number 19 was rebuilt in 1837, incorporating parts of a mid and late 18th-century house, and was remodelled and combined with the rebuilt Number 21 between 1845 and 1847. There have been 20th-century alterations and extensions. The mid-19th-century remodelling was done by G.T. Andrews for the Bar Convent.

The buildings are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with some stone dressings and have a slate roof. They rise three storeys and have seven bays. The facade features a stone plinth and a cornice with dentils and modillions. The brickwork on the second floor is a different colour from that below. The windows are glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick flat arches. The left-hand ground floor window has external shutters with three raised and fielded panels on each leaf. The first and third bays have low blocked cellar openings, while the seventh bay has two cellar openings. The second and sixth bays contain doorcases with engaged Doric columns, fanlights, and six-panel doors. The left-hand doorway has short iron railings leading to its external steps. There is a chimney on the right in front of the ridge, with additional ridge chimneys with truncated caps located between the third and fourth bays, and between the sixth and seventh bays.

The interior has not been inspected, but records from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England indicate that it includes an 18th-century open string staircase with turned balusters and a handrail that is wreathed at the foot on a turned newel, along with reused doors and doorcases from around 1760. Other fittings, including doorcases with fluted surrounds and angle roundels, date from around 1837. Number 21 features a staircase with a cast-iron balustrade.

Local climate

19 and 21, Blossom Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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