De Grey House And Attached Front Railings, Gate And Lamp Standard

De Grey House is an 1835 house with a 1910 extension, originally designed by PF Robinson and GT Andrews for William Blanshard. It is located on St Leonard’s Place in York and was formerly known as De Grey Rooms and associated with The Conservative Club.

The front and right side of the house are constructed in white painted Roman cement with a slate mansard roof, painted stacks, and a flat dormer containing a two-light Yorkshire sash window. The 1910 extension is of orange-cream brick in English garden-wall bond, with faience dressings, a pantile roof, and brick stacks. Low stone coping supports cast-iron railings. The building has three storeys, a basement, and attics; the front has three bays. The basement has one blocked window and a twelve-pane sash window. A flat bridge spans the area to a pilaster and entablature doorcase with a moulded cornice, leading to a front door of four sunk panels and bordered overlight. First floor windows are twelve-pane sashes with a moulded sill band, while second floor "squatter" windows have similar moulded sills. A broad first floor band and heavy moulded cornice are positioned over a fasciated eaves frieze, which returns across the right side. The right side return front is three storeys and four bays, with an attached two-storey eight-bay extension. The extension’s glazed and panelled door has a small-pane overlight, and it features twelve-pane sash windows. All openings have cambered arches with keyblocks; ground floor windows have moulded sills, and first floor windows have a moulded sillstring.

The interior was not inspected for listing purposes, but records show original fittings, including a first-floor front room with an enriched cornice and sunk-panelled fireplace, marble fireplaces, moulded cornices on the ground and first floors, coved cornices on the second floor, and a staircase with a cast-iron balustrade.

The railings feature mushroom finials, mace standards, and bracing to the ground floor wall. A gas lamp standard has an openwork shaft, a crossbar, and a four-sided tapered lantern.