York Buildings (Terrace)

No. 52 York Buildings is a house in a row, part of a group of seven, built around 1785. It features Flemish bond brickwork and a tiled roof. The building has three storeys, an attic, and a basement. Above two 9-pane sash windows with deep flush sill bands and sills, there is a hipped tiled dormer. The first floor showcases a storey-height tripartite window with an arrangement of 8:12:8 panes in a quasi-Palladian style, featuring a central blind arch that is painted in, along with a frieze and flush head and sill bands. This is above a skirt with three corresponding panels and a similar but less deep tripartite sash window on the ground floor, which has a head band. The basement level includes a central barred sash window set in a painted stone plinth. To the right, accessed by five stone steps with nosings, is an early panelled door with 12-pane glazing, framed by a moulded architrave and topped with a frieze and dentil cornice. The property has a frieze and moulded eaves cornice, with a ridge stack on the left. The exterior of this handsome property remains largely unaltered on the principal front.