3-20, SOUTH PARADE (See details for further address information)

YORK

SE5951SE SOUTH PARADE 1112-1/20/921 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.3-20 (Consecutive)

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Includes: No.43 BLOSSOM STREET. Terrace of houses, now 17 houses, a shop, and offices. 1825-8 with some C20 alterations. Probably built by Thomas Rayson senior, bricklayer. Brick in Flemish bond with painted stone or stucco dressings. Slate roof, hipped at left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys above cellars. Each house 2 bays with glazing bar sash windows which have painted rusticated lintels with false keystones. No.19 has a small flat-roofed attic dormer. At the left-hand end of the terrace a C20 shopfront and doorways occupy the ground floor of No.43 Blossom Street and the former Nos 1 and 2 South Parade (now part of No.43 Blossom Street). The shopfront returns to also occupy the ground floor of the 3 bays which face Blossom Street. The remaining houses each have a tripartite bowed glazing bar sash at the right on the ground floor and a doorway at the left with a doorcase which has engaged reeded columns, a frieze with raised mouldings, panelled reveals, a door of 6 panels, and an overlight with glazing bars in a diagonal pattern. No 4 has French doors to the cellar, and a C20 lean-to porch over the cellar doorway. No.6 has a glazed window replacing the cellar door. No.7 has a casement window with glazing bars lighting the cellar. No.8 has a C20 cellar window and glazed door. Nos 9, 10 and 11, 15, 16, 17 and 19 have 6-panel cellar doors. No.14 has a C20 concrete platform in front of the cellar window. The houses have timber gutters carried on rectangular brackets except for Nos 4, 5, 6 and 7, which have plastic gutters. Ridge chimneys to left and right of the former No.2, and to right of Nos 3-20. INTERIORS: not inspected. No.43 Blossom Street was first listed 01/07/68. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 129).

Listing NGR: SE5965951317