Description

YORK

SE6051NW COPPERGATE
1112-1/28/273 (South East side)
Nos.2, 4 AND 6
Galtres Chambers

GV II

Shops and offices. Dated 1906, with later shopfronts. Orange
brick in English garden wall bond, and faience resembling
ashlar, with faience dressings; brick stacks with faience
cornices on Westmorland slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 6-bay front, divided by quoined pilaster
strips, right end bays canted on corner. Gabled entrance bay
has doorcase of sunk-panelled pilasters, moulded modillion
cornice, semicircular open pediment with oversize dropped
keyblock, and recessed glazed door and screen in
hollow-chamfered architrave. Doorcase flanked by single fixed
light windows with Art Nouveau glazing and moulded sills.
Windows above are paired sashes, 1-pane on first floor,
12-pane on second floor. Gable treated as open pediment with
mutule cornice and dropped keyblock, over relief moulded
cartouche containing building name, and date panel with
semicircular hoodmould. Altered plate glass shopfronts flank
entrance bay, between faience pilasters with moulded imposts
and poppy head frieze blocks. Other upper floor windows are
tripled 1-pane sashes, taller on first floor than on second
floor. All windows have moulded sill bands; on first floor
lintels are cornices enriched with egg-and-dart mouldings: on
second floor, lintels are formed by moulded impost band to
pilaster strips. Corner bays rise into keyed semicircular
gables between ball and pedestal finials, enclosing sunk
roundels filled with moulded festoons. Bays to left of
entrance have plain frieze and mutule cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Included for group value on this pivotal site at the junction
between Castlegate and Coppergate.

Listing NGR: SE6036951662

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549242

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