Description

YORK

SE6051NW CHURCH STREET
1112-1/28/166 (South East side)
24/06/83 Nos.12 AND 12A

GV II

Shops and offices. Two separate builds of 1836-39, with C20
alterations and shopfronts. Orange grey mottled brick in
Flemish bond with moulded timber cornices; slate roofs, hipped
over corner bay, with brick stacks. Two fronts on corner site.
EXTERIOR: Church Street front: 3 storeys and mezzanine; 6
bays, one bay canted on corner. King's Square front: one bay
continues from Church Street to right of main front of 4
storeys, 4 bays. Church Street front: shopfront to No.12,
entered from King's Square, extends round corner, and
incorporates 6-panel upstairs door. Shopfront to No.12A has
part glazed door between plate glass windows over beaded panel
risers. Mezzanine floor has lunette window in moulded
semicircular arch over No.12A; other windows are squat 6-pane
fixed lights, some altered to 2- or 3-light small-pane
casements. First and second floors have 12-pane sash windows
with slender glazing bars, taller on first floor, with one
inserted first floor casement, and one blocked at left end of
second floor. All windows have narrow painted sills and flat
arches. Rebated corner bay has 2-light casement to mezzanine,
2x5-pane casement window in enlarged opening on first floor
and unaltered window on second floor. Windows in King's Square
bay are unaltered. Moulded raised band above mezzanine, and
moulded eaves cornice on shaped brackets. King's Square front
has 6-panel passage door at left end of shopfront. First floor
windows are tall 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars,
over painted stone sill band. Second floor has two 16-pane
sash windows, the third two squat 8-pane sashes, with painted
stone sills. All windows have flat arches. Moulded modillion
eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 117).

Listing NGR: SE6043051957

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550422

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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