137, Holgate Road

YORK

SE55SE HOLGATE ROAD 1112-1/1/498 (South side) No.137

II

House, now private college. Mid C19. White brick with ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys above cellar. 3 bays. The facade has 2 sill bands. The windows of the left-hand bay, and the right-hand first-floor window, are tripartite sashes without glazing bars under elliptical brick arches with keystones. The middle sashes of each window are wider; the lights are separated by engaged shafts with moulded caps and have semicircular heads. The central window on the 1st floor is sashed without glazing bars and has a semicircular head, and engaged shafts to left and right. At the right on the ground floor there is a canted bay window on a brick base. Its sashes have rounded upper corners and there are columns at the angles and a bracketed cornice. The ashlar porch is supported on 2 Tuscan columns and has a bracketed cornice and brick pilaster responds. The divided door has partly-glazed round-headed panels. The overlight is divided into 2 panes. The sprocketed overhanging eaves are decorated with bobbin-like projections at intervals. Chimneys to left and right. To the left there is a lower 2-storey blank wall to an attached wing. It has pilaster strips to left and right and a parapet wall with coping which is swept downwards in the centre. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE5889451266