House Attached To Rear Of Number 30 Yorkersgate

MALTON

SE780715 CHANCERY LANE 801-1/8/31 (West side) 10/06/74 House attached to rear of No.30 Yorkersgate (Formerly Listed as: YORKERSGATE (North side) No.30 York County Trustee Savings Bank)

GV II

Also known as: The Dickens House YORKERSGATE. House, now used as store. Early C19, with later C19 alteration. Orange-red brick, in Flemish bond at front and English garden-wall bond at sides and rear; painted stone dressings, and timber doorcase and eaves cornice; coped gables, shaped kneelers and brick end stacks to pantile roof. Central stairhall plan. 2-storey 3-bay front. Flight of steps leads to central doorway with recessed 6-panel door beneath small-pane fanlight. Flanking windows are segment-headed tripartite sashes with painted stone sills. On first floor, 16-pane sashes flank blind central light, over raised sillband. Ground floor openings have semicircular arches of gauged brick. Rear: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central panelled door with blocked radial fanlight, flanked by 2 small-pane lunettes to right, and blocked round-headed opening to left, all with semicircular brick arches. First floor centre window is round-headed beneath semicircular brick arch, with small-pane glazing. Flanking windows are 16-pane sashes with painted timber lintels. INTERIOR: open-string, dogleg staircase with thick turned balusters, moulded, ramped-up handrail and turned newels. Original floorboards throughout. House has associations with Charles Dickens, who is believed to have visited his friend Charles Smithson, a solicitor in practice there.

Listing NGR: SE7860471642