York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NE FOSSGATE 1112-1/17/337 (North East side) Nos.17 AND 18 GV II House with shop. c1890 with later alteration. White-washed rendered brick at front, with timber shopfront; right return of orange-buff brick in English garden-wall bond; tiled roof at front, slate at rear, with brick corbel-cornice stacks at each end. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front with applied timber-framing to upper floors. Shopfront of panelled pilasters with moulded imposts, on tall reeded pedestals, beneath plain fascia and dentilled cornice between gableted consoles carved with Art Nouveau tulips. Recessed glazed and panelled double doors flanked by half-canted plate glass windows with square-pane transom lights, over low moulded risers: at left end, slatted gate to side passage. First floor windows are 4-light square bays with casements and square-pane transom lights, and heavy moulded and dentilled cornices. Deeply coved and moulded eaves cornice. Gabled dormers to attic, with 3-light square pane windows beneath bold moulded cornices. INTERIOR: close string staircase with turned balusters and flat moulded handrail rises from ground floor to attic. Cornices survive in first floor rooms. Included for group value integral part of Fossgate. Listing NGR: SE6057251769