Lady Anne Middletons Hotel and Attached Garden Walls
LADY ANNE MIDDLETONS HOTEL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, SKELDERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256639
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Anne Middletons Hotel and Attached Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- LADY ANNE MIDDLETONS HOTEL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, SKELDERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256639
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Anne Middletons Hotel and Attached Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY ANNE MIDDLETONS HOTEL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, SKELDERGATE
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LADY ANNE MIDDLETONS HOTEL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, SKELDERGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60195 51410
Details
YORK
SE6051SW SKELDERGATE 1112-1/21/914 (South West side) 14/06/54 Lady Anne Middleton's Hotel and attached garden walls (Formerly Listed as: SKELDERGATE Middleton's Hospital)
GV II*
Formerly known as: The Ann Middleton Hospital SKELDERGATE. Hospital, now hotel: wall and gate attached to north-east corner bounding north side of front garden; wall attached to north-west corner, now incorporated into hotel sun-lounge. Walls form south-east side of Carr's Lane. Hospital dated 1829; renovated and altered 1973. By Peter Atkinson for The Corporation of York as Trustees. MATERIALS: pink mottled brick in Flemish bond on ashlar plinth, with window arches of orange-red gauged brick; ashlar doorcase and frontispiece, timber eaves cornice; 8 brick stacks to hipped roof of Welsh slate. Garden walls of red and dark brick, part in English garden-wall bond, part in random bond; stone coping. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 7-bay front, 3 centre bays pedimented and projecting slightly. 2 wide steps to central doorcase with flat cornice hood on brackets and door of 8 raised and fielded panels in plain architrave. First floor centre bay has hemispherical niche in round-headed architrave between volutes carved with anthemion, which contains painted carved figure of the Foundress in Puritan dress. All windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills beneath flat arches of gauged brick, those on ground floor recessed in blind panels. Modillion eaves cornice, and plain cornice to pediment. Datestone in pediment inscribed: "THIS HOSPITAL/ WAS BUILT AT THE/ EXPENSE OF THE CORPORATION/ OF YORK ANNO 1829/ THE RIGHT HONble JOHN DALES/ LORD MAYOR/ WILLm HOTHAM ESQr./ GEO PEACOCK ESQr. WARDENS/ ISAAC SPENCER ESQr." Rear: 16-pane sash windows. Paired modillion eaves cornice. Original rainwater goods survive, with fluted bowl hoppers. INTERIOR: cantilevered staircase with stone treads, hollow-sided stick balusters, and ramped-up wrought-iron handrail, wreathed at foot round column newel on shaped curtail step. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: garden walls approximately 1.75 metres high, stepped- and ramped-up to 2.0 metres approximately, following slope of Carr's Lane. Part in front of building interrupted by garden gate of railings with arrowhead tips; part to rear incorporating segment-arched opening with boarded door. Tooled flat coping. HISTORICAL NOTE: Middleton's Hospital was founded in 1659, by Mrs Anne Middleton, widow of Peter Middleton (Sheriff of York
in 1618). The carved figure of the Foundress over the door of the present building may survive from the original hospital. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 51).
Listing NGR: SE6019551410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 51
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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