Building Attached To South West Corner Of Lady Anne Middletons Hotel

This building, attached to the south-west corner of Lady Anne Middleton's Hotel in York, was originally an organ manufactory constructed around 1880. It underwent alterations in the early 20th century and was renovated around 1989. The front is made of red brick in Flemish bond, accented with bands and dressings of cream or black brick, while the right side and rear feature mottled red brick in a variant of English garden-wall bond. The slate roof is gabled at the front and includes a timber valance, bargeboards, and a finial.

The exterior has a two-storey front. There is a 20th-century door inserted in the left return. The ground floor features two lancet windows with decorative glazing and stone sills, set beneath pointed arches. There is a three-course sill band and a one-course impost band made of contrasting brick. The right window is blind. On the first floor, there is a window with three lancets, also with bordered decorative glazing and stone sills on quarter round moulded sill blocks, matching the detailing of the ground floor windows. In the attic, there is a cross-glazed oculus surrounded by contrasting brick. The gable end has a contrasting brick frieze and console cornice. To the left of the first-floor windows, a rectangular plate for a tie rod is visible within the building.

Inside, the windows include stained glass panels. The roof is supported by two king post trusses with single side purlins, some of which are carried on spurs and others are trenched-in.

Historically, the building served as an organ-builder's workshop, occupied by Walter Hopkins until 1921, when it was sold. At the time of the survey, a notice advertising the sale of "valuable Organ Builder's Stock in Trade," which included a steam engine, was displayed in the upstairs room.