Numbers 3 To 16 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Basement Area Railings

Numbers 3 to 16 York Place is a terrace of 14 houses built around 1790, possibly designed by William Paty. The houses are constructed with limestone ashlar and render, with party wall stacks and slate and pantile mansard roofs. They follow a double-depth plan and are a Late Georgian style. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window frontage, although numbers 3, 4, and 12 to 15 have two windows. The terrace features pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet; numbers 5, 11, and 16 project forward, and number 7 has a rusticated ground floor and vermiculated basement, with plat bands to numbers 7 and 8. The left-hand doorcases have pilasters to entablature blocks with triglyphs and pediments, semicircular-arched doorways, metal fanlights, and six-panel doors. The entrance to number 16 is in the right-hand return, featuring a central semicircular-arched doorway with a blocked surround, and a first-floor oriel supported on cast-iron columns. To the rear of number 16 is a first-floor bowed oriel on tall cast-iron columns. The windows are mostly 6/6-pane sashes, although number 16 has a first-floor 6/6/6-pane triple sash, and there are various 20th-century dormers. A first-floor balcony to number 10 has cast-iron brackets and decorative railings and stanchions, topped by an arched, tented roof. The interior features entrance halls divided by semicircular-arched doorways leading to dogleg stairs with stick balusters, column newels, and ramped rails; some houses have a central lateral stair. Attached to the front are spear-headed basement area railings and gates with finials, along with elaborate cast-iron railings with spiked heads to number 10. The building benefits from group value due to its architectural coherence and contribution to the Clifton streetscape.