Description

YORK

SE6051NW CASTLEGATE
1112-1/28/145 (North East side)
24/06/83 No.31

GV II

Office, now restaurant. 1825-6, with C20 alteration. By PF
Robinson and GT Andrews for their own use. Front of orange
brick in Flemish bond, English garden wall bond to right
return; overhanging boarded eaves and brick stacks to slate
hipped roof.
EXTERIOR: raised ground floor on semi-basement; 2-bay front to
Castlegate. Renewed 6-panel door in basement, to left; on
ground floor, to right, 12-pane sash window with painted stone
sill and flat arch of gauged brick. Rear: altered openings in
basement. Two 12-pane sash windows to upper floor. Right
return: 5 bays. Gabled round-arched porch projects in centre,
with renewed 6-panel door and divided overlight. In basement,
small-pane windows with segmental arches, the one to left of
door 2x6-pane horizontal sliding sash. Full-height external
shouldered stacks in bays flanking entrance.
INTERIOR: reset late C18 chimneypieces in rooms on ground
floor (former drawing offices): that in larger room has fluted
pilaster jambs with acanthus capitals, frieze with moulded urn
and leaf motifs, and enriched cornice shelf: replacement grate
has late C19 tiled slips. In smaller room, fireplace has
tapered fluted pilaster jambs and moulded enriched frieze with
composition urns and plain centre block.
HISTORICAL NOTE: plans submitted by PF Robinson and GT Andrews
for remodelling the adjacent York Castle were accepted in 1825
and executed between 1826-35 and susequently demolished. This
building functioned as Andrews' office until his death in
1855, and was used by successive partners in the practice
until 1891. It is probably the earliest surviving
purpose-built architects office.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 113).

Listing NGR: SE6048151561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550464

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