Description

YORK

SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE
1112-1/28/575 (South side)
19/08/71 Nos.9 AND 11
(Formerly Listed as:
LOW OUSEGATE
No.11)

GV II

Two houses, later combined, with restaurant on ground floor.
No.9 early C19 with later C19 and C20 alterations; No.11 has
C17 core with early C18 front block, refronted 1776 (on
rainwater head), and with further later alterations. C20 inn
front to both.
MATERIALS: No.9 has front of orange-black mottled brick in
Flemish bond with dentilled eaves cornice of timber; rear of
pink-grey mottled brick in English garden-wall bond; double
span pantile roof with brick stacks. No.11 has front of
painted brick in Flemish bond with timber dentil and modillion
eaves cornice; rear of red brick in irregular bond. Slate roof
at front, with brick stack, pantile at rear.
EXTERIOR: No.9 has 3-storey 1-window front; No.11 has front of
3 storeys and attic, and 2 windows. First floor of No.9 has
canted bay window with casements and coloured glass transom
lights; on second floor, enlarged cross window beneath flat
arch of gauged brick. No.11 has sash windows on first and
second floors, with 6-pane upper sashes over 1-pane lower
sashes, all with flat arches of gauged brick. One flat topped
dormer in attic, with squat 6-pane sash window. At right end
of cornice, dated inverted bell rainwater head.
Rear of No.9: 3 storeys, 1 window. Ground floor obscured by
later building; margin-glazed 4-pane sash on first floor, and
16-pane sash on second floor, both with soldier brick arches.
Rear of No.11: 3 storeys and gabled attic. Ground and first
floors not visible; unequal 12-pane sash window on second
floor, and C20 replacement window to attic, beneath cambered
brick arch.
INTERIOR: of No.9: close string staircase with slender turned
balusters and moulded, ramped-up handrail rises from first to
second floor. First floor front room entered through 6-panel
door; moulded cornice survives. Interior of No.11: staircase
from first floor to attic has moulded close string, turned
balusters, square newels with attached half balusters, and
heavy moulded handrail. First floor front room retains
bolection moulded panelling on front wall; subdivided room at
rear has moulded intersecting beams and moulded cornice. On
second floor, three doorcases are reeded, with angle blocks;
front room has door of 6 fielded panels, and mid C19
fireplace. In attic, floors to landing and rear room are of
gypsum plaster; 3-panel door in studded partition wall
survives to rear room; fragment of timber-framed wall survives

over stairwell, behind later brick outer wall. Roofs of front
block and rear wing of collared rafters laid on purlins.
Upper parts of buildings in poor condition at time of survey.
No.9 is included in the list for the first time.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157).

Listing NGR: SE6029251654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548800

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Recommended Books

• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover