Description

YORK

SE6051NW CASTLEGATE
1112-1/28/140 (South West side)
14/06/54 No.20
and wall attached to south-west
corner

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.20 AND 22 CASTLEGATE.
House and shop, and wall approximately 50 metres long attached
to rear, forming boundary between Nos 18 (qv) and 20. Wall
late C13; house and shop early C19, re-roofed and altered
later.
MATERIALS: wall of magnesian limestone; house of orange brick
in Flemish bond, part on painted stone plinth, and with
painted stone dressings; ground floor, with remains of timber
shopfront, rendered and painted; roof obscured by plain
parapet. L-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Plain pilasters and flat
cornice of earlier shopfront retained on ground floor:
openings altered to half-canted small-pane shop window at
right of recessed glazed and panelled door, with upstairs
access door of 6 sunk panels further left. At left end,
folding door of sunk panels beneath blind fanlight in
semicircular arch of painted voussoirs. On first floor,
12-pane sash window is flanked by shallow canted bay windows
with panelled risers and 15-pane centre sashes. Second floor
windows are 9-pane sash between 16-pane sashes. All windows
except bays have painted stone sills and flat arches of
voussoirs with keyblocks. Centre windows on both floors have
floating cornices.
INTERIOR: open string staircase with shaped treads has
cast-iron balustrade of openwork angular panels. First floor
room to left has apsidal end cantilevered over staircase,
fitted with cupboards with shaped doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall attached to rear was part of the
north-west wall of the precinct of the former Franciscan
Friary.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 51; 114).

Listing NGR: SE6041751606

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550462

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)