Description

YORK

SE6051NW COPPERGATE
1112-1/28/276 (South East side)
14/06/54 Nos.28, 30 AND 32

GV II*

Hall house and tenement shops; now shops and building society.
Probably C15 partly demolished later; hall floored and
fireplaces inserted early C17; further alterations c1800;
later C19 shopfronts, part renewed in C20; Nos 28 and 30
restored 1988 and 1994.
MATERIALS: timber-framed, plastered and white-washed at front
with timber eaves frieze and cornice on paired modillions;
rear infilling replacement brick in stretcher bond; original
infilling of plastered panels, survives in some interior
walls. Front range roofed in tiles, hall range in pantiles;
brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 3-bay tenement range at front, with parallel 3-bay
hall and chamber range at rear. 3-storey 3-window front. Left
end bay of front range, probably original porch bay, deeply
jettied at first floor; 2 bays to right jettied on first and
second floors. One curved porch bracket survives at left of
porch bay. Plain shopfronts with moulded pilaster jambs,
moulded cornices and panelled risers. On first floor, windows
to Nos 28 and 30 are 1-pane sashes, to No.32 tripartite sash
with 12-pane centre window. Second floor windows are 2x9-pane
horizontal sliding sashes. Renovation in 1994 revealed carved
first and second floor bressumers.
Rear: timber-framing exposed. Right return of hall range:
timber-framing and crown post roof truss exposed.
INTERIOR: timber-frame survives virtually intact throughout,
including studded partition walls, blocked 2-light window in
second floor front room of Nos 28 and 30, and inserted first
floor to hall on chamfer-stopped transverse beams. Ceilings
elsewhere mostly underdrawn. Roof trusses where visible are of
crown post construction with side and collar purlins.
Nos 28 and 30: on ground floor, segment-arched openings on
fluted pilasters lead to renewed winder staircase rising
around hemispherical niche. Against end wall of hall, massive
brick fireplace with cambered timber lintel, the ends shaped
into corbels. On first floor, at the head of the stairs, a
fragment of painted wall plaster is preserved behind perspex
panel. Right room in front range has corner chimneypiece with
pilaster jambs enriched with wheatear drops, leaf capitals,
frieze with festoons and paterae, and draped urns at each end.
Rear room has plain fireplace with moulded cornice shelf, and
ducks-nest grate with urns and palm fronds to sidepieces.
Length of timber lintel to earlier fireplace is exposed above,
and second fragment of painted wall plaster. On second floor
of hall, chamfered segment-arched fireplace of brick; in front
range, in inserted passage with door of 6 raised and fielded

panels two rows of wooden wall pegs survive.
No.32: front room on first floor has late C19 fireplace with
plain bracketed shelf fitted with early C20 cooking range.
Room to rear has brick fireplace with chamfered segment-arched
lintel and ducks-nest grate with rinceaux on the sidepieces.
On second floor, rear room open to roof, exposing two crown
post trusses.
Range represents incomplete survival of apparently rare
building type of which few other examples were known
nationally at time of survey. A more complete example is
represented by Nos 41, 43 and 45 Goodramgate, York (qv).
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 128; Hook
R and Thornes R: Nos 28-32 Coppergate, York: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SE6044651722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 28–32 Coppergate at Wikipedia
• 28–32 Coppergate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q115866888 Q17549955

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