York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW KING'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/521 (South West side) 24/06/83 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: KING'S SQUARE No.6) GV II House. Late C16 origins, rebuilt and extended to rear in mid C18; C20 alterations and shopfront. MATERIALS: timber-framed core; front rendered and colour-washed with moulded console cornice of timber; rear and right return ground floor orange-red brick in stretcher bond, first floor probably retaining original plastered infilling between exposed studding. Steeply pitched pantile roof with brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front. Shopfront framed in panelled pilasters with glazed doors flanking elliptical bowed shop window; broad fascia beneath moulded cornice. Windows on first and second floors are 12-pane sashes in raised architraves with moulded sills. Rear: 3-storey, 2-window gabled wing, largely obscured by adjacent buildings. INTERIOR: main elements of framing, including posts with jowled heads, visible on first and second floors. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 151). Listing NGR: SE6043151943