York Historic Environment Record

House, now shops and flat. c1770 with early C19 and C20 alterations. Brick, mostly in Flemish bond, with pantiled roof.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 4 bays. The first floor windows have rubbed brick flat arches and are sashed without glazing bars. On the ground floor the left-hand bay has a tripartite sash without glazing bars; this is a late C20 insertion. The 2 right-hand bays have an early C20 shopfront with a recessed doorway. In the 2nd bay there is a panelled timber pilaster doorcase with fanlight and open dentilled pediment. Above the pediment is the flat brick arch of a blocked opening, suggesting that the doorcase is not original. The timber gutter cornice is bracketed and dentilled. At the left there is a downpipe with a fluted lead hopper head. The left-hand gable is coped. Chimneys at right and behind ridge.

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-: 74).
Listing NGR: SE6024452451

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

No. 70, was built c. 1770, of two storeys with a four-bay elevation to the front. It is generally similar to 68 Gillygate, but has not been so drastically altered. The original L-shaped plan provided two front rooms flanking the entrance passage and one small room and the staircase projecting at the back

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 74. Monument 137

NMR Information

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

BF060600 70 GILLYGATE, 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.