York Historic Environment Record

Includes: Row of tenements attached to No.24 Fossgate STRAKER'S PASSAGE. House, and row of 3 tenements attached at rear fronting on Straker's Passage; now shop. Early C19 with later C19 shopfront and windows.

MATERIALS: brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stone dressings and timber guttering on paired modillions; shallow-pitched slate roof with left end brick stack. Tenements of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond, pantile roof and brick stacks.

EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front. Shopfront of fluted pilasters beneath plain fascia and cornice, between fluted consoles. Small-pane shop door with overlight recessed between plate glass windows: flat arch to Straker's Passage to right. First and second floor windows are 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills and channelled wedge lintels with keyblocks. Tenements: 2-storey 3-window front. Ground floor openings blocked or altered. On first floor, two of three original 16-pane sash windows survive. Openings have flat arches of orange brick.

INTERIOR: of house: close string staircase with stick balusters, slender turned newels and ramped-up moulded handrail rises from first to second floor.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 133).
Listing NGR: SE6057351755

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

NMR Information

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

BF060562 24 FOSSGATE, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

RCHME, 1981, City of York Volume V: The Central Area (Monograph). SYO65.

Walker Nicholas Architects, 2015, 24 Fossgate (Unpublished document). SYO1740.

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