Description

YORK

SE6051NW BLAKE STREET
1112-1/28/47 (North East side)
19/08/71 No.25
(Formerly Listed as:
BLAKE STREET
Nos 15, 17, 19A, 19, 21A, 23 and 25)

GV II

Two houses, now shop, offices and maisonette. Both houses late
C18; house fronting Blake Street 1785 with late C19
alterations and shopfront; house fronting Stonegate altered in
early C19, with mid C19 shopfront; both altered further and
combined to form single shop in C20.
MATERIALS: Blake Street house of red-brown brick in Flemish
bond; timber shopfront and eaves cornice; slate hipped roof
with brick stacks. Stonegate house orange-brown brick in
Flemish bond with orange brick dressings; roof obscured by
parapet with stone coping.
EXTERIOR: Blake Street front: 4 storeys and basement; 5-bays.
Shopfront framed in panelled pilasters with imposts and carved
consoles at the head; moulded and dentilled cornice between
carved segment-headed terminal blocks above. Glazed shop doors
with brass fittings at corner, behind cast-iron arcade of 2
round arches on squat columns with foliate capitals and tall
pedestals, and spandrels decorated with shell and foliage
motifs; shop entablature continues over with paired consoles
at corner. Other doors are of 4 raised and fielded panels with
overlights: shop windows are plate glass, of 2 lights with
transoms and roller blinds. Cellar openings beneath have
ornate cast-iron grilles. Windows on first floor are 2-light
casements, on second floor 1-pane sashes, on third floor squat
4-pane sashes: all have flat arches of gauged brick and those
on second and third floors painted stone sills. Dentilled and
modillioned eaves cornice. 1-bay right return to Stonegate
repeats main front openings with 1-light shop window.
Stonegate house: 3 storeys and attic; 2-window front.
Shopfront framed in plain pilasters with imposts beneath
dentilled cornice on grooved brackets: to left, blocked shop
door; plate glass window with colonnette mullions, over
moulded panel riser broken by ornate cast-iron grilles to
cellar openings. On first floor, windows are shallow
tripartite bow with fluted frieze and slight cornice to left,
segment-arched tripartite sash to right; second floor windows
are 12-pane sashes with cambered heads and gauged brick
arches. Altered attic extended to left as parapet has lunette
window with squat 6-pane sash and semicircular arch of gauged
brick. All upper floor windows have painted stone sills.
INTERIOR: has steep winder stair with open strings, shaped
treadends, stick balusters and serpentine handrail. RCHM
record top lit staircase with turned balusters in Stonegate

house.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 110).

Listing NGR: SE6017451999

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550628

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)