Millfield House (Number 153A) And Tall Timbers (Number 165A)

Millfield House (No. 153A) and Tall Timbers (No. 165A), York

Two adjoining houses on the north side of Hull Road, now subdivided into a house and a residential home. The main building dates from around 1830 with later alterations and extensions. It was subdivided around 1930 and further altered and extended in the late 20th century, including the addition of a conservatory.

The buildings are constructed of white brick in Flemish bond to the front and left return, with random bond brick to the rear. The rear basement is of pink-cream brick in English garden wall bond. Both buildings have shallow pitched hipped roofs of slate with wide eaves and brick chimney stacks. No. 165A features a gabled and bargeboarded dormer with a 2x2-pane window in the attic to the right return. At the rear, there is a flat-roofed slated box dormer with renewed 4-pane top-hung lights.

No. 153A presents a symmetrical 3-bay front of 2 storeys and basement. The entrance is marked by a Tuscan porch with paired columns and entablature, beneath which are double doors of raised panels with a semicircular fanlight in a keyed moulded round arch flanked by paired antae with moulded imposts. To the left is a window of 3 grouped 1-pane sashes with cambered heads; to the right an unequal 15-pane sash window. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows with louvred shutters, with a small inserted 1-pane sash to the left of the centre window. The left return has a ground floor obscured by a conservatory with lean-to roof, and two 12-pane sash windows on the first floor.

No. 165A is formed by a 2-storey 2-bay extension to the right of No. 153A, with a further 20th-century extension set back to the right. Its entrance is a glazed and panelled door beneath a flat porch on columns in the re-entrant between the right return and the further extension. The ground floor has a window of 3 grouped 1-pane sashes with cambered heads and a small 1-pane sash to the right. The first floor has a tripartite window with narrow 1-pane sashes and a single 1-pane sash to the right. Over the porch on the right return is a 4-pane sash window with a flat brick arch.

All windows to the front and left return have channelled segmental arches or wedge lintels with moulded keyblocks and painted stone sills.

The rear elevation is 2 storeys with 5 bays, and includes a basement to No. 153A and an attic to No. 165A. The centre bay is canted and has a basement with tall 8-pane sashes on each side of a 20-pane sash. The ground floor window is a 20th-century replacement; the first floor has a 12-pane sash. To the right of the centre bay, the basement door is of 6 incised panels with a divided overlight, with board garage doors further right. The upper floors have a tall radial-glazed staircase window with a round brick arch and small-pane glazing, over a small margin-glazed 1-pane sash in a segmental brick arch to the right of centre. At the far right end, the ground floor has an unequal 15-pane sash window; the first floor has a 36-pane sash. To the left of the centre bay, No. 165A has two 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor and, on the first floor, a 1-pane sash to the left and a 4-pane sash to the right. All rear openings have flat brick arches and painted stone sills except where otherwise indicated. A yard bell survives to the right of the tall staircase window.

The interiors were not inspected for this assessment. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments records that while the original staircase has been removed, many original doorcases and fireplaces survive.