Description

YORK

SE6051NW NESSGATE
1112-1/28/797 (North East side)
Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

Bank and attached manager's house, now shop. 1839 with late
C20 alterations. By JB and W Atkinson for the Yorkshire
Agricultural and Commercial Bank.
MATERIALS: bank building has rusticated sandstone ground floor
with vermiculated quoins and upper floors of ashlar with
chamfered quoins; doorcases of marble and other dressings of
ashlar; red brick stacks to hipped slate roof. Manager's house
of grey-cream mottled brick in Flemish bond with stone
dressings patched in render, and moulded eaves cornice; slate
roof with brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front to Nessgate, with lower
3-storey 3-window range to right. Bank entrance to left is
glazed door recessed in pedimented doorcase beneath
round-headed overlight. Two windows to right are round-headed
fixed lights stepped back in round-arched openings of
radiating voussoirs on rusticated pilasters with moulded
bases. Moulded impost band continues across window heads as
transoms. Window sill band forms band to plinth of defaced
rusticated panels. Moulded cornice to ground floor. First
floor windows have bracketed cornice hoods, centre one
pedimented, 6-pane upper sashes and 1-pane lower sashes. Sill
band on moulded consoles is interrupted beneath centre window
by mutilated balcony flanked by carved swags. Second floor has
squat 6-pane sashes in raised lobed surrounds. Moulded eaves
frieze and bold cornice on heavy consoles. Ground floor
openings in range to right altered to tall fixed windows
beneath shallow cornice on plain pilasters with moulded
imposts. First floor windows repeat those of Bank front, and
second floor windows are unequal 9-pane sashes with stone
sills, all with flat arches of brick. Moulded eaves cornice
beneath low parapet. Bank front to High Ousegate repeats that
to Nessgate.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 167).

Listing NGR: SE6033351688

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548499

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)