Description

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE
1112-1/17/342 (South West side)
24/06/83 Nos.35 AND 36

GV II

Inn and house; now shops and warehouse. c1812, with later
alterations. Front part of orange brick in Flemish bond with
timber doorcase and shopfronts; rear parts of orange-red brick
in English garden-wall bond. Pantile roof with stone coping to
front; other roofs of slate or pantile with brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. No.35 has doorcase to right
of centre with sunk-panel pilasters, moulded panel frieze and
flat cornice hood: double doors of 6 beaded panels each
beneath cross-glazed fanlight recessed in incised panel
reveals. To left, paired shopfronts with plate glass windows
framed in sunk-panel pilasters with modillion cornices on
foliate consoles. No.36 has transomed plate glass shop window
and recessed glazed panelled door with plain overlight in
sunk-panelled reveal, beneath cornice terminating in gableted
scrolled consoles. First floor windows are tripartite, those
to No.35 replacements, that to No.36 with 5:15:5-pane sashes:
No.35 has replacement 2-light casements on second floor, No.36
one unequal 9-pane sash. All windows have flat arches of
gauged brick with triple keyblocks and painted sills. Eaves
frieze and boxed guttering on paired modillions with fluted
inverted bell rainwater head at right end. Left return: door
of 6 sunk panels beneath radial fanlight in round-arched
opening. Some windows on ground floor are tripartite sashes,
elsewhere 4- and 12-pane sashes, those in front blocks with
painted wedge lintels, in rear blocks with flat arches of
soldier bricks.
INTERIOR: of No.35. Ground floor: elliptical arch on fluted
pilasters divides former entrance hall. One former front room
retains moulded cornice, the other ribbon and candlestick
frieze. Main staircase rises to first floor, with open string,
turned balusters, 3 to a tread, and moulded ramped-up
handrail. Back stairs rise to second floor with close string,
stick balusters and flat handrail ramped-up to column newels.
In one rear room, cast-iron fire grate survives with moulded
architrave and shelf. First floor: doors are of 6 raised and
fielded or beaded panels. In front room door, windows and
chimney cupboards have architraves with angle blocks, and
window recesses and cupboard doors of incised panels. Reeded
cornice and plaster ceiling rose. Part of fire grate survives.
In two rooms towards rear, cast-iron fire grates remain, one
with foliage trails and medallions of flute-playing figures.
Third floor: several rooms retain original fire places and
grates; one has Art Nouveau grate. Doors are of 6 raised and
fielded panels, and one in rear room is of early C18 of 2
raised panels.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 133).

Listing NGR: SE6056651715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549143

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)