Description

YORK

SE6052SW LOW PETERGATE
1112-1/27/584 (South West side)
Nos.49 AND 51

GV II

Formerly known as: Fordham's Hotel LOW PETERGATE.
Hotel, now cafe. Mid C19, incorporating fragments of medieval
structure; early C18 wing; late C20 renovation and shopfront.
MATERIALS: medieval structure timber-framed: front of orange
brick in Flemish bond with dressings and raised quoins of
white brick; timber shopfront; C18 wing of orange- brown brick
in stretcher bond; C19 extension of white brick in English
garden-wall bond. Roof not visible.
EXTERIOR: 4-storey 5-bay front. Shopfront with modillioned
cornice incorporates part-glazed passage door between
sunk-panelled pilasters at left: plate glass window is of 3
unequal lights with 4-centred heads to right of recessed
glazed door. Windows on first and second floors are 1-pane
sashes, on third floor 12-pane sashes, all with segmental
heads beneath 2-centred arches of orange and white brick.
First floor windows have painted stone sill band; second and
third floor windows have painted stone sills extended in white
brick to form flat sill bands. Eaves parapet with flat coping
has inset crosses of white brick.
INTERIOR: not inspected: RCHM record C17 staircase above
ground floor with bulbous balusters, newels with attached
half-balusters and moulded handrail; late C19 secondary
staircase in rear wing; several C19 marble fireplaces, moulded
cornices and panelled doors.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 193).

Listing NGR: SE6032752071

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548785

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)