Description

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE
1112-1/17/331 (North East side)
14/06/54 No.8

GV II

House, now shop. Early C17 front block, with late C17 rear
extension, altered in C19, and C19 extension linked to early
C18 rear block. Late C19 shopfront.
MATERIALS: front block timber-framed with painted plaster
infilling and timber shopfront: rear extensions of brick, and
rear block of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond on
1-course plinth of re-used limestone blocks. Pantile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front, with jettied upper floors and
exposed timber-framing. Pilastered shopfront with entablature
of egg-and-flower architrave, fascia on brackets, one carved
with shell and foliage, and dentilled cornice: plain door to
right, and recessed glazed and panelled double doors with
overlight to left, flank plate glass shop window with
Composite colonnette mullions, spandrels moulded with Tudor
flower ornament, over raised panelled risers. Windows on first
floor are 3-light canted bays; on second floor, tripartite
3:9:3-pane sashes. Projecting eaves.
INTERIOR: not fully inspected. First floor room in early C18
rear block has blocked corner fireplace and walls covered with
run-through panelling. RCHM record a close string staircase
with bulbous balusters in late C17 extension. Limestone
masonry incorporated in rear block on Black Horse Passage may
form part of precinct wall of former Carmelite Priory.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 132).

Listing NGR: SE6054851812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 8, Fossgate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26549167

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