Greengate House

MALTON

SE780715 GREENGATE 801-1/8/43 (East side) 29/09/51 No.43 Greengate House (Formerly Listed as: GREENGATE (East side) Nos.43 AND 45 Greengate House (43))

GV II

Town house. Late C18, probably incorporating part of an early C18 house; later extension, and C19 and C20 alteration. Front: red brick in Flemish bond on sandstone plinth, with painted stone doorcase and dressings; timber eaves cornice. Rear: early C18 wing of red brick, and staircase wing part rubble stone, part mottled brick. Hipped slate roof with brick stacks at base of hip to left and right, and right-of-centre ridge stack. Central entrance-hall plan, with earlier building incorporated as centre rear wing, stairhall at left rear, and kitchen extension at right rear. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window front. Pedimented Doric doorcase with detached columns, fluted frieze and dentilled cornice, approached by 2 steps; C19 half-glazed and panelled door beneath plain semi-circular fanlight. Windows on ground and first floors are single pane sashes, those to attic squat 4-pane sashes, all with flat arches of gauged brick. Raised first-floor band and first floor sillband; attic windows have painted stone sills. Console cornice to projecting eaves, returning at each end. Rear: gabled, 2-storey 2-window early C18 wing projects in centre; to right, 2-storey 1-window staircase wing; to left, one and a half-storey 1-window pent extension. Centre wing has single pane sashes with painted stone sills, beneath keyed flat arches of gauged brick. Staircase wing has painted stone full-height Venetian window. Both wings have coped gables and shaped kneelers. Early C18 wing has M-section roof disguised by swept-up parapet. INTERIOR: ground floor: entrance hall with stone flags, C18 moulded stone fireplace, and moulded elliptical arch to stairhall. Stairhall has stone flags. Open-well, cantilevered staircase of stone stairs with shaped treadends; cast-iron balustrade with moulded handrail, wreathed at foot. Moulded dado rail. Corinthian order Venetian window, enriched with swags and flutes. Front rooms: C19 plasterwork. Room to left has C19 carved fireplace; room to right, early C20 fireplace. Rear centre room has shallow niche with keyed, elliptical arch on fluted pilasters with dentilled imposts. First floor: front rooms, C18 fireplaces in rooms to right, and marble fireplace, c1840, in room to left. Attics: several plain C18 fireplaces and grates survive. Throughout the house, there are a number of C18 six-panel doors with original brass door furniture. Front windows have panelled shutters, and shutters in rear centre ground floor room are boxed, c1840.

Listing NGR: SE7883071821