Numbers 64 And 66 And Attached Railings (St Marys House Number 66)

A pair of houses, numbers 64 and 66, with attached railings (St Mary's House number 66), built around 1855. The houses are now used as flats and a dental surgery. They are constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a Welsh slate roof.

The front facing Bootham is three storeys high with cellars and attics, and has four bays by three. The entrance to number 64 has a four-panel door with a plain overlight, contained within a wooden doorcase with rosettes and flattened consoles. To the left is a projecting, canted bay window with sashes of 2:4:2 panes and a modillioned cornice. The other bays have sashes with glazing bars, set within reveals beneath cambered brick arches, with a sill band linking similar windows on the first floor. Shorter windows are present on the second floor. A modillioned wooden cornice runs along the eaves of the roof, which is hipped at one end, with two ridge stacks and a stack at the opposite end.

The return front, facing St Mary's, features a central distyle-in-antis porch (for number 66) with a four-panel door, sidelights, and a two-pane overlight, topped by a modillioned cornice. Ground-floor bay windows have sashes of 4:12:4 panes on raised panels. Upper floor windows are similar to those on the Bootham front, with paired four-pane sashes to the second floor of the second bay.

Inside, there are four-panel doors and some contemporary marble fireplaces. A cantilevered stone staircase in number 66 curves to the second floor and has square iron rods set into a wooden handrail, with statue niches and an elongated octagonal lantern within an oval recess. The staircase in number 64 is similar but is interrupted by an inserted ceiling, as the ground floor is now occupied by number 66.

The attached railings facing Bootham and St Mary’s are set in low walls and have a twin top rail with spear finials. Gates provide access to basement steps on the Bootham front. There are stone gate piers opposite the porch to number 66, and end piers on the right-hand side, with 20th-century brick corner piers also present.