York House

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET 652-1/10/62 (East side) 05/04/67 Nos.129 AND 131 York House (No.131)

GV II

House, now shops. Early C19. Brick laid to Flemish bond with painted ashlar dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof with brick parapets and brick stack to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Top cornice and central pedimental gable with relief urn and husk festoons. 2 shop fronts, those to centre and left are late C19 or C20 double-fronted with frieze and cornice over C20 door and flanking canted bay windows with colonnettes; that to right is early C19 with entablature over entrance with panelled pilasters and brackets to entablature, fanlight with simple glazing bars over small-paned half-glazed door; window to left has bowed ends, small-paned glazing with grilles below. First floor has central window with sill, and fluted brackets to entablature over 6/6 sash, flanked by canted bay windows: that to left is a C20 rebuild; that to right has sill, and frieze and cornice over 4/4:8/8:4/4 sashes. second floor has segmental-headed windows with sills and keyed archivolts over 4/4 sash to right, and 2-light casements to centre and left (replacing sashes). Rear has 2 half-hipped gabled wings with some sashed windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP1511066085