York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW CONEY STREET 1112-1/28/253 (South West side) 19/08/71 Nos.15 AND 17 (Formerly Listed as: CONEY STREET No.15) (Formerly Listed as: CONEY STREET No.17) GV II Shop and offices. Early C19; No.15 modernised, and No.17 rebuilt, in C20, re-using early C18 column, early C19 bow window and eaves cornice. No.15 of orange brick in Flemish bond, with marble faced office front, timber eaves cornice, and slate hipped roof with brick stack: No.17 of red brick in stretcher bond with painted stone column. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 2-window front to No.15, 1-window front to No.17. Shopfront to No.15 has glazed double doors recessed between plate glass windows, all with semicircular fanlights. Ground floor of No.17 has flat carriage arch with reset Tuscan column forming the right jamb, and plate glass shopfront. First floor windows to No.15 are 3-light shallow canted bays with 1-pane sashes, fluted friezes and moulded cornices: re-used window to No.17 is shallow tripartite bay with 16-pane centre sash between 8-pane sashes, beaded panel frieze and plain cornice. Windows on second floor of both buildings are 12-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick; on third floor, unequal 9-pane sashes: all have painted stone sills. Dentilled modillion eaves cornice, returned at right end of No.15, continued across No.17 beneath plain parapet, masking roof. Inverted bell rainwater head at right end of No.15. INTERIORS: not inspected: RCHM record the following. No.15 has mid C19 fireplace and moulded cornice in first floor front room. No.17 has early C19 fireplace and moulded cornice in first floor front room. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.15 was built as offices for the newspaper 'The York Courant', continuing in this use until 1991. Re-used features in No.17 survive from the George Inn, formerly occupying the site and demolished 1869. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 126). Listing NGR: SE6018451838