Description

YORK

SE6051NW PAVEMENT
1112-1/28/852 (South East side)
Nos.2 AND 4

GV II

Includes: Nos.1, 3 AND 5 (Piccadilly Chambers) PICCADILLY.
Bank, shops and offices. 1915-21; altered 1992. By Brierley
and Rutherford.
MATERIALS: ground floor of ashlar and reconstituted stone;
upper floors of red brick in English bond, except for ashlar
corner bay, with ashlar dressings and cornice; tiled roof with
brick stacks and copings, and inserted flat-topped dormer with
4-light small-pane window.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; splayed corner bay between
3-bay Pavement front, 10-bay Piccadilly front. Corner bay
rusticated on ground floor, with renewed double doors in
pedimented doorcase. Openings on quoined upper floor flanked
by giant order Corinthian pilasters. First floor window has
triple-keyed architrave in pedimented surround of rusticated
pilasters opening to wrought-iron balcony balustrade: second
floor window has voluted architrave. Projecting quoined
entrance bay on Piccadilly front has 6-panel door and first
floor window in triple-keyed architrave with ashlar segmental
pediment. Ground floor openings framed in tripled pilasters
beneath broad frieze and moulded cornice. Original shopfront
survives at right end with glazed and panelled door in shaped
architrave beneath pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice and
decorative overlight: windows are canted, of plate glass with
square lattice glazing above transoms. Other ground floor
openings are renewed windows with stone sills. All first floor
windows are 15-pane sashes with keyed flat arches of rubbed
and gauged brick and stone sills. Second floor windows are
12-pane sashes with stone sills. Moulded cornice and frieze to
eaves with rainwater head dated 1915.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6046451759

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548334

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