Building record MYO1291 - 26 Lord Mayor's Walk

Summary

An early 19th century shop with flats above.

Location

Grid reference SE 6050 5234 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Shop and flats. Early C19. Brick with concrete tile roof.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 2 bays. The windows to the upper storeys are glazing bar sashes with segmental brick heads, except for the left-hand window on the 1st floor which is tripartite and bowed with glazing bar sashes and a reeded surround. At the left on the ground floor there is a shopfront with a recessed central doorway and timber pilasters and fascia. To its right there is a doorcase with engaged reeded columns, a panelled frieze, plain cornice and a door with 6 raised and fielded panels. The semicircular overlight has a single vertical glazing bar. To the right there is an entrance to a passageway, with a lintel and a door with 6 sunken panels. A second doorcase at the far right forms part of No.24 (qv). Chimney on right-hand gable.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 83).

Listing NGR: SE6050752345 Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005

Nos. 26–34 (even), are all of three storeys. No. 26 has an entrance with attached reeded shafts and a semicircular fanlight. There is a shallow bow window with reeded surround to the first floor; the upper windows have slightly segmental arches. The roof is pantiled, as is that of No. 28. No. 32 has a continuous sill-band to the first-floor windows and a platt-band at second-floor level. No. 34 has a main doorway and a smaller doorway on the ground floor, and a moulded and dentilled timber cornice.

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 83. Monument 227

NMR Information

List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest District of York, 14-MAR-1997

BF060753 26 LORD MAYOR'S WALK, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.


RCHME, 1975, RCHME Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse (Monograph). SYO2424.

NMR, 2019, NMR data (Digital archive). SYO2214.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Digital archive: NMR. 2019. NMR data.
  • --- Monograph: RCHME. 1975. RCHME Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse.

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Record last edited

May 1 2020 3:49PM

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