Description

YORK

SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE
1112-1/28/571 (South side)
24/06/83 Nos.1 AND 1A
(Formerly Listed as:
LOW OUSEGATE
No.1)

GV II

House with shop. 1810-20 with later alteration and C20
shopfront; exterior renovated in 1992. Orange-grey brick in
Flemish bond with window arches of orange gauged brick; river
front on limestone plinth. Timber mutule eaves cornice,
returned on right front to slate hipped roof with brick
stacks.
EXTERIOR: Low Ousegate front 3 storeys, 3 windows. At left end
are paired doorcases of shaped-panel pilasters and bracketed
console cornices, consoles and brackets carved as acanthus
leaves: doors of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath tall
overlights approached by stone steps. Shopfront to right,
returned on river front. First floor windows are 12-pane
sashes, those on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all with
stone sills and flat arches of brick. At right end of cornice,
a fluted bowl rainwater head.
River front of 3 storeys and basement on chamfered plinth; 5
windows. Plinth has paired plank doors beneath heavy tooled
lintel to right of centre, and further right a blocked opening
with shaped lintel. Basement has four 16-pane sashes. In
centre of upper floors are 2 tall round-headed staircase
windows with brick archivolts, each breaking through 2
storeys. Flanking windows on ground and first floors are
12-pane sashes, and on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all
with flat arches. All windows have stone sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157).

Listing NGR: SE6026451643

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548795

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