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River House is a historic building in the city centre of
River House is a historic building in the city centre of York
York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
, in England.
The building was constructed in 1868, as the Yorkshire Club. The Yorkshire Club had been founded in 1839, at 5 St Leonard's Place
St Leonard's Place is a street in the city centre of York, in England.
History
The site street lay mostly within the walls of Roman Eboracum, and two Anglo-Saxon carved stones and a large coin hoard have been discovered in excavations in the ...
, and grew by absorbing the Yorkshire Union Hunt Club in 1856. With its larger membership, it decided to move to bigger, purpose-built premises, on a prominent site on the south side of Museum Street
Museum Street is a street in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, England. To the north is the British Museum, hence its current name. The street is populated by cafes and bookshops to appeal to the international museum-going p ...
, next to Lendal Bridge
There are nine bridges across the River Ouse within the city of York, England, and sixteen smaller bridges and passages across the narrower River Foss.
Bridges over the Ouse
The earliest bridge, built by the Romans, linked Stonegate (the ''vi ...
. The site enabled it to have a private waterfront area on the River Ouse, which is now the Lendal Boatyard. Inside, there was a dining room, bar, billiards room, studies and bedrooms.
The club closed some time after World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, and was converted to offices. It was Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
in 1971. By 1980, it housed Savills
Savills plc is a British real estate services company based in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
The business was established by Alfred Savill (1829–1905) in 1855 in London. ...
estate agents. From the early 2000s, Pizza Express
PizzaExpress is a British multinational restaurant group, owned by a group of bondholders. It has over 470 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, the Philippines, the Unite ...
occupied half the building. It was refurbished in 2017.
The building was designed by Charles Jocelyn Parnell and it is built of brick, with stone dressings and quoin
Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...
s, and granite columns. It has a basement, two main storeys, and attics. The central part of the building is three bays wide, with single-bay wings either side. On the Museum Street front, a portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...
fills the space between the wings, with a balcony above, and a projecting porch in the centre. The river front is of four bays, with the basement above ground, and a ground floor terrace supported by cast iron columns.
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