Dean Court Hotel (Part) And Attached Railings

A row of three houses, constructed around 1864 and later altered, now forming part of a hotel. The houses were designed by Lewis Cubitt for the Dean and Chapter. They are built of orange brick in a raking Flemish stretcher bond, with a plinth and dado of coursed squared stone, and ashlar quoins, dressings, and window surrounds. Oriel and bay windows have stone slate roofs; the main roof is of Welsh slate with stone copings and brick stacks.

The houses are three storeys high, with a basement and attics, presenting seven unequal bays to Duncombe Place, with an eighth bay on the corner; alternate bays are wider, gabled, and project. There are two bays facing High Petergate. Basement openings have lintels formed by stepped-up plinths. The entrance to number 1 has been altered to a two-light window above a basement doorway. Entrances to numbers 2 and 3 have doors of eight faceted panels beneath overlights recessed in quoined porches with shouldered, two-centred heads, approached by steps. Two-storey canted bays flank the central doorway, featuring windows of six mullioned and transomed lights on both floors. Outer bays on the ground floor have paired two-light mullioned and transomed windows; first-floor oriels are present on the first floor. Intermediate first-floor windows have two- or three-light mullioned and transomed lights, set beneath brick relieving arches. Second-floor windows have paired, shouldered lights. Gabled attics feature two-light windows with two-centred heads; bays between contain lozenge-shaped lights beneath triangular dormers. All windows are single-pane sashes. A two-storey canted bay at the corner has three-light windows on the ground and first floors, with a window similar to those on the main front on the second floor.

The High Petergate front has a blind ground floor to the left, beneath an extruded twin flue corbelled-out stack, arched at its base and displaying a reset bordered panel carved with the keys of St Peter. To the right are two two-light windows on the ground floor, a three-light window on the first floor, and a single three-light window with shaped mullions and casements on the second floor; the attic has a gabled dormer with a casement window of two pointed lights. All mullions and transoms are chamfered with bold, run-out stops. Moulded sill strings are present to the ground and first-floor windows on both fronts.

The interior was not inspected.

Area railings are horizontal and fixed to low, twisted standards, with leaf tendrils in the spandrels.