Description

YORK

SE6051NW CASTLEGATE
1112-1/28/135 (North East side)
19/08/71 No.5
The Little John Public House and
attached carriage gates

GV II

Inn and carriage arch with attached gates. Early C18, with mid
C19 inn front, and later extension. Stucco front on painted
stone plinth, with bracketed moulded eaves cornice of timber;
rear of front range rendered; rear wing of orange-red brick in
random bond; brick stacks to slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 4-bay front. At left of ground floor is
flat carriage arch, closed by double gates of arrow-tipped
railings, between chamfer-stopped jambs and with plain
entablature terminating in paired grooved brackets. Present
entrance through glazed double doors in 1-storey extension
behind arch. To right of arch, inn front has three 12-pane
sash windows with dwarf fluted pilaster jambs and painted
moulded sills, beneath continuous frieze and cornice between
grooved brackets. On first floor, 3-light bow window with
12-pane sashes to left: to right, tripartite window with
12-pane sash between 8-pane sashes. On second floor, windows
are 12-pane sashes. Broad raised band to second floor. At
right end of eaves cornice is inverted bell rainwater head.
Rear: 3-storey gable wall, with 3-storey wing projecting to
left. 24-pane first floor sash window over carriage arch in
gable wall. Yard side of wing not visible. Rear elevation
overlooking yard behind No.7 Castlegate (qv) has ground floor
obscured by lean-to buildings, and at inner end single unequal
12-pane sash windows with flat arches on first and second
floors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron gates.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 111).

Listing NGR: SE6039051659

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Blue Boar at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26550457

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