Plans have been unveiled for the former home of one of York’s most famous households.
Members of the confectionery dynasty as soon as lived at Curzon Lodge on Tadcaster Road.
Now its present homeowners wish to improve half of the historic property.
Curzon Lodge was previously home to Noel Goddard Terry, who oversaw the constructing of the Terry’s chocolate manufacturing facility, his spouse Kathleen and their youngsters. Once often called The Beeches, the property was additionally home to future generations of the Terry family.
It is subsequent door to Goddards, a Grade I listed arts and crafts home, which was constructed for the couple in 1927. Goddards is now owned and run by the National Trust.
The family who now personal Curzon Lodge wish to flip the Coach House right into a family home. It was beforehand used as a visitor home.
While Curzon Lodge is Grade II listed, this itemizing doesn’t seem to cowl the Coach House.
According to planning paperwork, it’s now ‘dilapidated’ and “and does not celebrate the character of the building successfully”.
Plans to improve the constructing embody the “demolition of front projection”. Architects Arkle Boyce would then oversee the becoming new doorways and home windows. Inside the lodging will likely be transformed from separate models right into a two-bedroom annexe.
Noel Terry was grandson of the corporate founder. Sir Joseph Terry, and joined the family agency in 1911.
Noel modernised gross sales strategies and workplace administration in Terry’s. The spectacular Terry’s Chocolate Factory on Bishopthorpe Road, designed by J E Wade, was accomplished below his management in 1926.
You can learn about the plans here.
