York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW CONEY STREET 1112-1/28/264 (South West side) 24/06/83 No.39 GV II Two houses, now one shop. Left house early C18; right house late C18; modernised in late C20. Colour-washed incised stucco with slate and tile roofs, right part hipped with brick stack. EXTERIOR: left front 3 storeys and attic, 3 windows; right front 4 storeys, 2 windows. C20 shopfront. All first, second and third floor windows are 1-pane sashes in raised architraves with painted stone sills. Attic windows in left house are 4-pane sashes beneath segmental pedimented gables with ball finials. Left house has dentilled console cornice; right house a bold dentil and modillion cornice, returned at each end. INTERIOR: right house: has staircase from ground to third floor, bottom flight reset, rising around top-lit well: staircase has open string, turned balusters, two to a tread, and flat, moulded handrail, ramped-up to each flight and parallel dado rail. First floor: two doorcases with moulded surrounds and modillion cornice overdoors on landing. Front room fitted with panelling above moulded dado rail, some panels eared and shouldered and enriched with egg and flower carving. Window architraves similarly enriched. Fireplace enriched with composition mouldings of vases, twisted festoons and medallions, beneath enriched eared and shouldered overmantel panel. Richly moulded cornice. Back room retains some plain panelling and part of dentilled cornice: fireplace has sunk panel jambs, enriched with composition mouldings of wheatear drops, panelled frieze with floral roundels at each end, panels of anthemion, and centre panel with classical figures: pedimented and eared overmantel panel. Left house: on second floor, front room fully lined with bolection moulded panelling, with dado rail and bold cornice: fireplace has fasciated surround and plain shelf, and fine cast-iron grate. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 127). Listing NGR: SE6022651753