Description

YORK

SE6051NW CONEY STREET
1112-1/28/263 (North East side)
24/06/83 Nos.36-42 (Even)
including No.38A
(Formerly Listed as:
CONEY STREET
Nos.36, 38, 38A AND 40)

GV II*

Terrace of three houses, with range of buildings attached to
No.36, right angled to form rear yard; now shops, warehouse
and language school. Late C18 terrace, extended in late C19 to
incorporate early C17 and early C19 buildings at rear; late
C19 shopfronts, altered in C20.
MATERIALS: street front of orange-buff brick in Flemish bond
with sharply projecting dentil and modillion eaves cornice and
cast-iron and timber shopfront; rear of red brick in Flemish
bond with brick dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof
with brick stacks. Late C19 extension of pink-grey brick in
Flemish bond with brick dentilled eaves cornice, slate roofs,
one hipped with scrolled corner brackets, and brick stacks.
C17 building timber-framed, later encased in re-used
orange-brown brick, Flemish bond at front, rear part stretcher
bond, part English garden-wall bond; moulded modillion eaves
cornice of timber at front, and pantile roofs. Early C19 house
of orange brick in Flemish bond at front, with similar timber
cornice, returned at left end; rear of Flemish garden-wall
bond over lower courses of random bonded brick; hipped slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 4-storey 6-window front. Full width shopfront of
elliptical arched windows on colonnettes with moulded
capitals; fascia shaped to segmental arches by attenuated
tulip foliage with tulip heads in spandrels; shallow cornice
rises in centre over wide segmental pediment between heavy
brackets ornamented with entwined tulip flowers and leaves.
Panelled door with overlight beneath pediment leads to rear
yard. Windows on first floor are 12-pane sashes over raised
sill band; on second floor, unequal 9-pane sashes except for
two altered at right end; on third floor, two original 6-pane
sashes remain, the others altered. All windows have flat
arches, with painted sills to those on second and third
floors. Fluted bowl rainwater head on right return.
Rear of front terrace 4 storeys, 2 windows, extended at right
end into 2- and 3-storey 6-window range; yard closed by
3-storey early C17 bay and early C19 2-bay house front. Ground
floor of front terrace obscured by later additions, except for
round-arched passage opening. Extension has blocked central
doorway in inserted doorcase with segment-headed arch on
moulded corbels and cogged brick cornice hood: towards right
end, window altered to plain door beneath cambered brick arch.

First floor windows are mostly 12-pane sashes, on second floor
4-pane sashes. C17 bay has altered door beneath tall staircase
window with semicircular arch of rubbed brick and painted
stone sill. Early C19 house incorporates passage arch with
semicircular head to left of plain door with blocked
overlight. First floor window is 16-pane sash, second floor
squat 8-pane sash, both with narrow sills and flat arches of
rubbed brick. Rear of C17 building is twin-gabled with altered
openings and blocked original window with flat arch of brick
in left gable.
INTERIOR: No.36: front rooms on first and second floors have
fireplace surrounds of timber painted to resemble marble, one
on second floor retaining cast-iron range and grate. Rear room
on second floor has plain fireplace with hob grate. First
floor front room has plaster anthemion and palmette frieze,
coved cornice and sunk-panelled window shutters. Other rooms
on first and second floors retain moulded cornices. Three
fireplaces survive on third floor, one of cast-iron, one with
remains of cast-iron grate and range. Nos 38 and 40 have
top-lit open-string staircases from first floor to attic, with
tall column-on-vase balusters, slender moulded handrails
ramped-up to detached turned newels. Cornices survive in most
rooms on first and second floors.
No.38: second floor front room has painted timber fireplace
with fluted jambs and fluted dentil cornice shelf; rear room
has cast-iron fireplace with floral moulded architrave in
fluted surround, and pulvinated frieze enriched with rosettes
and horizontal flutes.
No.40: first floor front room has painted timber fireplace
with Corinthian pilaster jambs, plain shelf and late C19
basket grate. Second floor front room has plain fireplace with
ornate basket grate, rear room painted fireplace in raised
panelled surround with plain shelf and hob grate with
cornucopias and medallions on sidepieces. On third floor, both
rooms retain fireplaces with fluted friezes and cornice
shelves, that in front room with basket grate with scrolled
back plate.
C19 extension: open string staircase with heavy turned
balusters and moulded handrail rises from first to second
floor. On first floor rear room has plain pilastered fireplace
with flat shelf and cornices to front and back rooms. Second
floor front room has moulded cornice and round-arched fire
grate, rear room stone fireplace with incised frieze and
grooved keyblock, and round-headed grate. C17 block: open
string staircase from ground to first floor, with slender
column-on-vase balusters, shaped tread ends and delicate
ramped-up handrail with turned newel at the foot. On first and
second floors framing survives with full height braced posts,
wall plates, and some studding on second floor. In early C19
house main staircase with re-set column-on-vase balusters
rises from ground to second floor. Fireplaces survive on first
and second floors.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 124).

Listing NGR: SE6023451819

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 36–42 Coney Street at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549981

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