Description

YORK

SE6051NW HIGH OUSEGATE
1112-1/28/448 (South side)
24/06/83 Nos.22-25 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH OUSEGATE
Nos.22 AND 24)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH OUSEGATE
Nos.25, 26 AND 27)

GV II

Pair of houses with shops, now shops and offices. Nos 22-24
c1840, No.25 added as infill, dated 1903: late C20 shopfront
to No.22; 1903 shopfront shared by Nos 24 and 25.
MATERIALS: Nos 22-24 of pink-grey brick in Flemish bond with
timber eaves cornice; slate roof with brick stack at left end,
rendered stack at right end. No.25 of orange brick in
stretcher bond, with ashlar dressings and parapet.
EXTERIOR: Nos 22-24 has 4-storey, 4-window front; No.25 has 4
storey, 1 window front. Shopfront to Nos 24 and 25 framed in
panelled pilasters, relief carved with fruits, leaves and
flowers entwined in ribbon, on tall geometric panelled
pedestals; plain frieze beneath moulded dentilled cornice
between consoles enriched with guilloche mouldings, capped by
terminal gablets with foliage tendril carvings. Replacement
glazed doors and overlight deeply recessed between curving
arcade of elliptical arched windows on slender Composite
colonnettes with moulded bases, beneath margin-glazed
clerestory and with spandrels carved with rosettes. On first
and second floors, Nos 22-24 have 12-pane sash windows, on
third floor squat 6-pane sashes, all with painted stone sills
and flat arches. No.25 has 2-storey 5-light canted bay window
on first and second floors, with moulded mullions, transoms,
sills and cornices. Third-floor window set back and obscured
by parapet with terminal piers carved with lion masks in high
relief, and moulded and dated rainwater head at right end.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 148).

Listing NGR: SE6036951707

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548965

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