Lady Anne Middletons Hotel And Attached Garden Walls

Lady Anne Middleton's Hotel, originally Middleton's Hospital, was built in 1829 and renovated in 1973. It was designed by Peter Atkinson for The Corporation of York as Trustees. The building is constructed of pink mottled brick in Flemish bond on an ashlar plinth, with window arches of orange-red gauged brick; the doorcase and frontispiece are ashlar, and the roof is covered with Welsh slate, topped by eight brick stacks. The garden walls are of red and dark brick, partially in English garden-wall bond and partially in a random bond, with stone coping.

The main front has two storeys and seven bays, with the three central bays projecting slightly and topped by a pediment. A wide flight of steps leads to a central doorcase, featuring a flat cornice hood supported by brackets, and a door made of eight raised and fielded panels in a plain architrave. The first floor of the central bay contains a hemispherical niche within a round-headed architrave, incorporating volutes carved with an anthemion, and a painted carved figure depicting the hospital's founder, Lady Anne Middleton, in Puritan dress. All windows are 16-pane sash windows with painted stone sills, set within flat arches of gauged brick, the ground-floor windows being recessed in blind panels. There's a modillion eaves cornice and a plain cornice to the pediment. A datestone in the pediment bears the inscription: "THIS HOSPITAL/ WAS BUILT AT THE/ EXPENSE OF THE CORPORATION/ OF YORK ANNO 1829/ THE RIGHT HONble JOHN DALES/ LORD MAYOR/ WILLm HOTHAM ESQr./ GEO PEACOCK ESQr. WARDENS/ ISAAC SPENCER ESQr." The rear of the building has 16-pane sash windows and a paired modillion eaves cornice. Original rainwater goods with fluted bowl hoppers remain.

Inside, there's a cantilevered staircase with stone treads, hollow-sided stick balusters, and a ramped-up wrought-iron handrail, wreathed at the foot around a column newel on a shaped curtail step.

The garden walls are approximately 1.75 metres high, rising to around 2.0 metres to accommodate the slope of Carr's Lane. The walls are interrupted by a garden gate of railings with arrowhead tips. The rear of the property incorporates a segment-arched opening with a boarded door. Toolled flat coping tops the walls.

Middleton’s Hospital was founded in 1659 by Anne Middleton, widow of Peter Middleton. The carved figure above the door may be a survivor from the original hospital building.