York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052SW STONEGATE 1112-1/27/1042 (North West side) 14/06/54 Nos.48 AND 50 GV II* Formerly known as: Nos.36 AND 37 STONEGATE. House, now shops and tea rooms. c1600 with C19 alterations; early C19 shopfronts with altered glazing. Timber-framed, encased in render, colour-washed at front; timber shopfront and doorcases with cast-iron glazing bars; moulded timber eaves cornice; pantile roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front, both upper floors jettied. Shopfronts incorporate doorcases framed in sunk-panel pilasters with moulded imposts and acanthus consoles at the head beneath moulded cornice with lion mask stops. No.48 has plate glass shop window to left of recessed glazed and flush panelled door with overlight. In centre, paired doorcases have disused 6-panel door, and glazed and flush-panel door to No.50, both with fanlights with beaded radial glazing bars: shop window to right is plate glass. Both shop windows retain roller blinds and sloped timber sills. First floor windows are canted oriels with tripled 1-pane sashes; on second floor, squat 6-pane sashes. Right return opens on to passageway with door of 6 raised and fielded panels and Yorkshire sash windows, of three 8-pane lights on ground floor, two 9-pane lights on first floor. INTERIOR: timber-frame exposed on ground and second floors of No.50. First floor: front room to No.48 has plain fireplace with round-headed grate; front room to No.50 has corner fireplace with fluted jambs and frieze with angle rosettes, cornice shelf and hob grate. No.50 has staircase from first to second floor with slender turned balusters, turned newels and moulded ramped handrail. C18 door of 2 fielded panels in attic of No.50. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 224). Listing NGR: SE6026852073