9-12, Grosvenor Terrace

The terrace comprises four houses at 9-12 Grosvenor Terrace, York, dating from the 1870s to the 1880s. It is likely designed by John Bellerby. The houses are constructed of white brick in an English garden-wall bond, with ashlar and red stone dressings. The eaves feature a red brick or terracotta frieze behind a white brick corbelled cornice with timber guttering. The slate roof has gabled dormer windows with four-pane sashes, originally featuring pierced and scalloped bargeboards and turned timber finials. White brick stacks are panelled in red brick and have white moulded brick cornices. Individual house divisions are marked by inserted moulded stone corbels at the second floor and eaves levels.

The exterior presents three storeys and eight bays, with each house occupying two bays. The outer bay of each house features a two-story canted bay window topped with a low parapet over a coved cornice, linked at the second floor level by a ceramic tile band. Short steps lead to paired front doors with shaped panels in moulded surrounds that slightly project forward under shared moulded cornices. All windows are one-pane sashes, with those on the first and second floors having two-centred pointed heads. Openings are framed by two-centred arched surrounds with colonnette jamb shafts of red stone, foliate capitals, and moulded square abaci; the ground floor capitals include carved heads. Ground floor openings have continuous hoodmoulds with head stops, while the second floor’s hoodmould forms an impost band stepped above the window heads. Ground and first floor windows have sill bands, while second floor windows feature sills on shaped brackets. The interior remains uninspected.