Description

YORK

SE6051NW COPPERGATE
1112-1/28/275 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.26
(Formerly Listed as:
COPPERGATE
No.26
The Market Tavern Public House)

GV II*

House, now restaurant. Late C15; C17 rear wing, extended in
C19; C18 and C19 alterations; renovated in late C20.
MATERIALS: front range timber-framed, now with brick
infilling, plastered and white-washed; timber eaves band,
pierced by quatrefoils, and bracketed cornice to
steeply-pitched tiled roof. Rear wing of brick, rendered and
white-washed, with roofs of slate and pantile. Brick stacks
are rebuilt.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front range, first and second floors
jettied; 2-storey wing with cellar to rear. Renewed glazed
door and windows in shopfront of plain pilasters and moulded
cornice on carved brackets. First floor windows are 4-pane
sashes, on second floor 2-light casements. Ornate console
brackets, quatrefoil in section, attached beneath second floor
jetty.
INTERIOR: lowest flight of spiral staircase survives in cellar
beside chimneybreast against right wall: upper flights
removed. In front range, posts, braces, transverse and spine
beams survive almost intact, including numbered second floor
joists, visible on first floor, and studded partition wall
without infill on second floor. On first and second floors,
original right end wall with studding and plastered infill
survives. Front range has fireplace with lintel of tooled
stone on ground floor; in wing, wide fireplace with cambered
timber lintel, rebated cupboard and chamfered candle shelf.
Three small fireplaces all with cambered brick arches on first
floor.
House was The Market Tavern at least from mid C19 to mid C20.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 128;
Brinklow D and Stockwell M: No.26 Coppergate: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SE6044351715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 26, Coppergate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549950

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)