York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052SE OGLEFORTH 1112-1/14/814 (North East side) 14/06/54 No.1 GV II Formerly known as: No.20 OGLEFORTH. Includes: No.14 GOODRAMGATE. Two houses, now restaurant. Early C18, altered and re-roofed in early C19; further alterations and shopfront in C20. MATERIALS: front of painted brick on brick plinth, with stone-coped painted brick parapet; rear of red-brown brick in random bond; pantile roof, hipped at corner, with brick coping and brick stacks; half-hipped dormers with wrought-iron corner scrolls and 2-light Yorkshire sashes. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 3-window front to Ogleforth, 2-window front to Goodramgate. Ogleforth front has left end doorcase with sunk-panel jambs, cornice hood and 6-panel door beneath tall overlight. Shopfront returns at right end from Goodramgate. Two ground floor windows and two on first floor are 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills: third first floor window is 16-pane sash. All windows have painted flat arches of gauged brick. One ground floor window incorporates tier of re-used fielded panels. Goodramgate has shopfront with glazed corner door and 12-pane sash windows on first floor. Raised first floor band broken on both fronts by altered ground floor openings. Raised eaves band beneath tall parapet. Inverted bell rainwater heads dated 1774, initialled IH, one at right end of Goodramgate front, one in centre of Ogleforth front. INTERIOR: Ogleforth house has brick fireplaces to cellar and ground floor: cellar fireplace has cambered timber lintel, ground floor one rebuilt re-using moulded timber lintel. Goodramgate house has original staircase from ground floor to attics, with slender turned balusters, square newels with attached half balusters and square moulded and ramped handrail. Rooms on first floor remodelled with moulded cornices and dado rails: one retains small hob grate in plain fireplace with segment-arched lintel. In attic, one room has heavily moulded round-arched fireplace. Roof of principal trusses with pegged through purlins. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 172). Listing NGR: SE6052752214