Description

YORK

SE6051NE WALMGATE
1112-1/17/1168 (South West side)
24/06/83 No.73
(Formerly Listed as:
WALMGATE
Nos.73 AND 75)

GV II

House and shop. Early C16 front block with rear wing c1700;
front block raised in early C19; late C19 shopfront. Front
block timber-framed, originally with wall tile infilling,
refronted in brick in Flemish bond, now painted; shopfront and
eaves cornice of timber; rear wing rendered; pantile roofs
with brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 1-window front. Shopfront of pilasters with
imposts and dentil cornice on paired carved brackets
incorporates 4-panel front door and overlight between
sunk-panel jambs at right end: shop door, part glazed, part
incised panels, to right of plate glass window with panelled
riser. 16-pane sash on first floor; unequal 12-pane sash on
second floor. Yorkshire Fire and Life fire mark dated 1824.
INTERIOR: ground floor rooms have exposed beams and joists.
Open string staircase rises to first floor, with alternately
twisted and turned column-on-vase balusters and ramped-up
moulded handrail, swept around column newel on shaped curtail
step. Rear room has fireplace and side oven beneath timber
lintel. First floor: front room has vestigial timber-framing
and wall tile infill exposed; rear room has exposed beam and
joists and cast-iron fire grate with fluted side pieces in
moulded surround with shelf. Second floor: front room has fire
grate decorated with cornucopias of fruit and flowers in
moulded surround with cornice shelf: 3-panel door.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 240).

Listing NGR: SE6082751536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547870

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)