Middleton House

Middleton House, formerly known as No. 38 St Maurice's Rectory, is a house located on Monkgate in York. It was built around 1700, with alterations made around 1780 and in the early 19th century. The structure is constructed of brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tiled roof.

The main building is symmetrical, standing three storeys tall (originally two storeys) and comprising five bays. The central bay projects slightly, and the facade includes two brick storey bands and a modillioned gutter cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes set beneath rubbed brick flat arches. The stucco doorcase is adorned with rusticated pilasters, a lintel featuring false voussoirs, and a modillion cornice. The overlight is decorated with lozenge-pattern glazing, while the door itself has six raised and fielded panels. The gables are coped, and there is a chimney positioned at the right-hand end of the ridge.

To the left of the main building, there is a two-storey wing with a pantiled roof, which is set behind a parapet. The ground floor of this wing features an elliptical rubbed brick carriage arch with stone impost blocks and a keystone. Within the archway, there is a 20th-century brick wall with a glazing bar sash window. To the right of the archway, there is another glazing bar sash window that matches those of the main house, and on the first floor, there is a similar window in an altered opening.

Inside, the house is noted for a fine original staircase that features twisted balusters on the lowest flight and bulbous turned balusters on the upper floors, all supported by square newels and a moulded and ramped handrail.

Historically, in 1798, the house was purchased by the Reverend Charles Wellbeloved. In 1803, he became Principal of Manchester College, a dissenting academy that relocated to York from Manchester that year and was housed in Middleton House until 1811.