York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW SHAMBLES 1112-1/28/1107 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.10 AND 11 GV II* House, now two shops and offices. C15, with later alteration; refronted in early C18; C20 renovation, extension and shopfront. Timber-framed, fronted in orange brick in Flemish bond, rear in random bond; pantile roofs with brick stack. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 2-window front. No.10 has board stable door beneath slatted overlight to right of 3-light small-pane shop window; No.11 has plank stable door with blocked overlight and shop window of 4 large panes. Both shops retain external counters and hanging bars beneath common canopy on projecting joists. First floor windows are 16-pane sashes with cambered brick arches. Rear: gabled, with C20 windows. INTERIOR: timber-frame survives substantially intact on both floors. Ground floor rear room of No.10 has brick fireplace with cambered lintel behind plain timber surround with shelf. The house was the home of Margaret Clitherow, executed as a recusant in 1586, canonised in 1970. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 214). Listing NGR: SE6046351882