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A substantial town house on the north-east side of Lendal in York, now used as a hotel. Built around 1715 for Dr Clifton Wintringham, the building has been enlarged and modified over successive centuries: a service wing was added in the later 18th century, extended and raised in the early 19th century, with a second extension added in 1936.

Exterior

The main elevation faces the street with its characteristic early 18th-century composition: two storeys with basement and attic, arranged in three unequal bays separated by plain pilasters, with the centre bay projecting forwards. The front is constructed of orange brick in Flemish bond laid on a chamfered brick basement, with a stone doorcase. The right return is of red-brown brick in stretcher bond, while the roofs are of tile with brick stacks, arranged as two parallel hipped ranges.

Access to the principal entrance is via a double flight of curved steps with plain railings and handrail. These are of red brick in Flemish bond with stone treads and cast-iron railings. The main entrance itself is contained within a stone screen carved with a swag; the doorcase features an Ionic Venetian arch, its keystone sculpted as a mask of Aesculapius. The arch frames a glazed and panelled door flanked by eight-pane sashes.

The fenestration across the ground floor outer bays and the entire first floor consists of unequal fifteen-pane sashes with cambered arches of gauged brick, triple keyblocks, and painted stone sills. Attic windows are squat three-by-two-pane lights positioned above a broad stepped brick band interrupted by stone window sills. The centre windows on the first and attic floors have triple-keyed fasciated stone architraves; the first-floor example has ears and a moulded stone sill with apron. A brick parapet with flat stone coping masks the roof.

The service wing, extending to the right, is constructed of red-brown brick in Flemish bond with extensions in stretcher bond and later sections in pink-cream brick in Flemish garden wall bond. Its central doorcase is open pedimented, with plain pilasters, moulded imposts, and a six-fielded-panel door beneath a radial fanlight. Ground floor windows are twelve-pane sashes with slightly cambered brick arches: two flank the doorway on each side, with a blank centre bay on the first floor above. The second floor has three symmetrically arranged windows of the same type. A prominent moulded and pulvinated eaves cornice runs across the elevation. Timber doorcases and cornicing are present.

To the left, a one-storey two-bay extension of 1936 features doors in both bays and rainwater goods dated to that year.

Interior

The ground floor entrance hall is flanked by fluted Corinthian columns with an enriched entablature. A marbled stone fireplace with panel overmantel is positioned within.

The rear left room is lined with raised and fielded panelling beneath a moulded cornice enriched with egg-and-dart ornament. Panelled shutters are present. The stone fireplace has a fasciated surround, cast-iron grate, and bolection moulded overmantel framed by fluted Ionic pilasters and entablature.

The rear right room is lined with fielded panelling in attached surrounds beneath a cornice enriched with acanthus and palmette, bead and reel, and egg and flower mouldings. Panelled shutters and a window seat are fitted. The marbled stone fireplace features a cast-iron grate and panelled overmantel flanked by sunk panel pilasters with moulded capitals and entablature.

The front right room is lined in raised and fielded panelling with panelled shutters. A pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice to the coved ceiling are present. The stone fireplace has a moulded surround and panelled overmantel flanked by panelled pilasters.

The main staircase rises from ground to first floor with cantilevered treads, fluted Ionic column balusters, and a moulded serpentine handrail wreathed at its foot around a fluted column newel set on a shaped curtail step. Sunk-panelled dado lines the staircase, which is lit by an Ionic Venetian window with full entablature. A secondary staircase with close string, column-on-vase balusters, and plain handrail rises from the ground floor to the attics.

The first floor contains a panelled plaster ceiling over the main staircase with groined coving springing from acanthus corbels with wheatear pendants and a quatrefoil centre panel. Panelled round-arched openings lead to a main corridor with groin-vaulted ceiling and six-panel doors in panelled reveals.

The rear left room has bolection moulded panelling and a moulded cornice of modillions and paterae. Panelled shutters are present. The fireplace features an egg-and-dart surround, moulded cornice shelf, and cast-iron grate.

The rear right room has a sunk-panelled dado beneath a moulded dado rail, with panelled shutters and window seats. A moulded dentilled cornice runs above. The fireplace has a carved surround, moulded cornice shelf, and basket grate.

The front room is lined in bolection moulded panelling above a moulded dado rail and fielded and sunk dado panelling. Shutters and window seats are of raised and fielded panels. A moulded cornice is present, as is a stone fasciated fireplace with cast-iron grate.

The attic has deeply coved ceilings, and some two-panel doors survive.