1896 - Yorkshire Hussar - North Street, York, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 53° 57.490 W 001° 05.133
30U E 625609 N 5980564
This 1896 building, that is a public house, is on the south west side of North Street, opposite the Park Inn hotel, in York. The year is to be found high up on the building.
Waymark Code: WMJYK5
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/17/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
Views: 1

The building is Grade II listed with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:

Public house. Dated 1896, with some later remodelling. By WG Penty. Red brick in English garden-wall bond, the basement painted; painted stone dressings; stone coped gables to tiled roof.

EXTERIOR: basement and 2 storeys, alternate bays with attic; 4 bays, articulated above basement by thin giant pilasters with moulded imposts. Left of centre attic has shaped gable, right end one shaped parapet, both with moulded coping. Entrance in basement of left of centre bay has double doors each of 4 raised and fielded panels beneath flat hood on fluted console brackets. To right, boarded cellar doors. At right end, tall elliptical carriage arch, closed by ramped-up boarded double gates. On ground floor, 3-light window over door, lighting inner stairway, flanked by 3-light mullion and transom windows. Similar window over carriage arch on first floor; others of 2 lights. All windows are small-pane casements, recessed beneath semicircular or segmental relieving arches. On ground floor, pilaster bases continue on each side to form moulded sill band; at first floor moulded impost band forms sill band to first floor windows. In attic, pilaster imposts linked by flat band, inscribed over left of centre bay with date 1896.

INTERIOR: not inspected. A public house on the site was known from c1840 to c1980 as The Yorkshire Hussar.

Year of construction: 1896

Cross-listed waymark: Not listed

Full inscription: Not listed

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