Description

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE
1112-1/17/334 (North East side)
01/07/68 Nos.13 AND 14

GV II

Shop and house. Late C17: remodelled with new front block
c1720: late C19 shopfront, altered c1928 for Masons, Grocers.
MATERIALS: front block has stuccoed brick front, incised to
resemble ashlar, and plain parapet with moulded coping; right
return of orange brick in stretcher bond and slate roof with
terracotta cresting. Rear building of buff-pink brick in
Flemish bond, double span pantile roof with brick coped Dutch
gables, and brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Shopfront has small-pane
door of bevelled glass beneath dentilled pediment hood,
recessed between plate glass windows with colonnette mullions
and painted tiled risers: windows have leaded transom lights
of coloured glass incorporating monogram MG. At right end are
recessed glazed and panelled double doors with fluted transom
beneath bordered overlight. First and second floor windows are
12-pane sashes with sills, centre one on second floor blocked.
Raised second floor and eaves bands with inverted bell
rainwater head at left end of eaves band.
Rear: 3 storeys with attics; twin gabled bays, left one set
forward. Ground and first floors of right bay obscured by
No.14A (qv). Left bay has through-passage opening beneath
15-pane first floor sash, both with flat arches of brick, and
radial glazed staircase window with brick round arch between
floors to right. Second floor windows of both bays are 12-pane
sashes, and to attics 2x6-pane Yorkshire sashes, all with flat
arches of brick. 4-course raised brick bands to first and
second floors, and moulded brick cornice beneath attic gables.
INTERIOR: of passage has fixed door of 8 raised and fielded
panels. Interior of shop retains moulded and dentilled timber
cornice over glass frieze advertising Messrs. Masons'
Provisions. Remainder of interior not inspected. RCHM record
staircase with column-on-vase balusters and ramped-up
handrail: staircase window enclosed in round arch on fluted
pilasters.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 132).

Listing NGR: SE6054451784

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549134

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