Description

YORK

SE6052SW DUNCOMBE PLACE
1112-1/27/301 (South East side)
13/10/75 No.8
and Gray's Dispensary

GV II

Formerly known as: The York Dispensary DUNCOMBE STREET.
Medical dispensary and offices. 1897-99. By Edmund Kirby of
Liverpool. For Messrs Gray, Dodsworth and Cobb, Solicitors.
MATERIALS: red brick in English garden-wall bond with moulded
brick dressings and window mullions and transoms of stone;
plain tile roofs, turreted and gabled, with brick stacks;
terracotta and wrought-iron finials and snake weathervane.
STYLE: Jacobethan Revival.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attics; 13-window front on
high plinth. Blocked segment-headed openings in plinth.
Projecting centre bay has half panelled double doors with
original furniture and 4 tiers of glazed arcaded lights in
4-centred multi-order arch of moulded brick: spandrels carved
with stylised flowers and foliage, dated 1788, 1899 to left
and right respectively. Upper storeys form 2-storey canted bay
window with half-hexagonal pointed roof. Over doorway is band
of blind arcaded tracery and stone panel carved in relief with
the City arms and a scroll bearing the words YORK DISPENSARY.
Left end bay is set back and treated as square turret with
pyramidal roof. Carriageway with shallow 2-centred arch closed
by wrought-iron double gates beneath stone panel with PATIENTS
ENTRANCE carved in low relief: 3-light windows with transoms
on upper floors. Projecting gabled bays on either side of
central doorway articulated by half hexagonal shafts rising
full height to coped gable with kneelers surmounted by
finials. First floor has 3-light windows, three to left, two
to right; attics segment-headed lights, in 3 tiers to left, 2
tiers to right. In centre of tripled bays at right end is
multi-order doorway with double doors of pegged-on panelling
and original furniture, and arcaded overlight with leaded
lights. Over door is 3-light window with transoms behind
arcaded parapet of traceried round arches of moulded brick.
Gabled bay to left has two 2-light ground and first floor
windows with transoms and 5-light attic window. Turreted bay
to right has narrow transomed windows on all floors, with
square heads in segmental arches on ground and attic floors,
flat lintels on first floor. Between projecting bays are
2-light windows with transoms on ground and first floors,
dormers with square lattice sashes to attic. Above first floor
windows is full-width blind traceried frieze of moulded brick,
continued across right return. Roll moulded brick sill strings
and string courses likewise returned.
Right return: 3-storey 3-bay gabled front. Basement openings
glazed. Ground floor windows are of 3 stepped lights with

transoms recessed in semicircular arches of moulded brick.
Polygonal shafts corbelled out between windows rise to
4-centred arch beneath crow-stepped gable. On first floor,
4-light oriel window is flanked by 3-light windows, all with
transoms. Second floor window is of three tiers of
segment-headed lights. Brick coped gable end has brick
kneelers incorporating rainwater gutter spouts.
INTERIOR: former dispensary staircase rises to attics, with
moulded close string, sturdy turned balusters, chamfered
newels with finials and pendants, and moulded handrail. Framed
newel staircase rises through offices from ground floor to
attics, having moulded close string, twisted balusters and
moulded handrail. Panelled doors in fluted and fasciated
architraves survive throughout building: moulded cornices
retained despite later subdivisions.

Listing NGR: SE6016852086

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Number 8 And Grays Dispensary at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26549182

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