House Attached To Rear Of Number 30 Yorkersgate

This is a house attached to the rear of Number 30 Yorkersgate in Malton, originally built in the early 19th century with some alterations made in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of orange-red brick, featuring Flemish bond at the front and English garden-wall bond on the sides and rear. It has painted stone dressings, a timber doorcase, and an eaves cornice, along with coped gables, shaped kneelers, and brick end stacks on a pantile roof.

The house has a central stairhall plan and a two-storey, three-bay front. A flight of steps leads to the central doorway, which has a recessed six-panel door beneath a small-pane fanlight. The flanking windows are segment-headed tripartite sashes with painted stone sills. On the first floor, there are 16-pane sashes on either side of a blind central light, above a raised sillband. The ground floor openings feature semicircular arches made of gauged brick.

At the rear, the house is also two storeys with three bays. The central panelled door is blocked and has a radial fanlight, flanked by two small-pane lunettes on the right and a blocked round-headed opening on the left, all with semicircular brick arches. The first floor has a round-headed window beneath a semicircular brick arch, with small-pane glazing, and flanking windows that are 16-pane sashes with painted timber lintels.

Inside, there is an open-string, dogleg staircase with thick turned balusters, a moulded, ramped-up handrail, and turned newels. The original floorboards are preserved throughout. This house has historical connections to Charles Dickens, who is believed to have visited his friend Charles Smithson, a solicitor who practiced there.