Description

YORK

SE6051NW PAVEMENT
1112-1/28/859 (South East side)
24/06/83 Nos.18, 20 AND 22

GV II

Public house, now shops and offices. Dated 1893, remains of
c1700 house incorporated in No.18; C20 shopfronts.
MATERIALS: pargeted front with applied timber-framing; rear
retains earlier wall of red brick in random bond with one
rendered wing and one wing of mottled brick in English
garden-wall bond; roof to front range slate with tile
cresting, rear roofs pantile; brick stacks, and terracotta
finial to gable.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-bay front, left bay gabled with attic.
Replacement shopfronts framed in original fluted and carved
pilasters with frieze and moulded cornice on grooved and
gableted brackets. Left end doorcase has raised-panel door in
panelled reveals beneath carved frieze and scrolled pediment
enriched with flutes and egg-and-dart, beneath segment-headed
overlight. On first floor, centre and right bays have
mullioned and transomed sash windows of 2 and 4 lights. Left
bay, recessed between posts with corbelled heads each
supporting a carved sphinx, accommodates 5-light elliptical
bow window with carved lintel. Second floor windows are of 2
and 4 mullioned lights with moulded sills, left one on shaped
brackets and with carved lintel on brackets. Mullions and
transoms are moulded. Carved and moulded first floor cornice
forms bressumer over recessed left bay and rises into scrolled
pediment over each window. Coved eaves cornice over centre and
right bays is pargeted with foliage trails interspersed with
cartouches: attic bressumer carved with stylised floral motifs
with date in centre. Attic window is of 2 lights set in
decorative timber-framing with curved and ogee braces. Gable
is barge-boarded with winged devil finials at base of gable
slopes, and broken dragon finial at apex. Pargeting
encompasses two painted representations of York City Arms.
Rear: original gabled rear wall of 3 storeys and attic;
3-storey gabled wing projects to left and 3-storey 2-window
extension to right. Ground floor obscured by later building.
On upper floors, openings altered with later sash windows;
raised brick band to attic of original rear wall.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 178).

Listing NGR: SE6049651794

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548338

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