York Historic Environment Record

Pair of houses, now shops. 1825, No.42 incorporating C15 structure; C20 restoration and partial demolition of No.43; new shopfronts. Orange-cream brick in Flemish bond with stuccoed timber-framed structure at rear; brick stack to pantile roof.

EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front. Pilastered shopfronts with small-pane windows and doors beneath decorative overlights. No.42 has tripartite sash with 4-pane centre window on first floor, two 16-pane sashes on second floor, all with painted sills and channelled wedge lintels with grooved keyblocks. No.43 has inserted bow window with 8:12:8-pane sashes on first floor, one 16-pane sash with painted sill and flat arch of orange brick on second floor. Fluted inverted bell rainwater head initialled IN at right end of plain eaves band. Rear: 2-storey 2-bay block projects, with two 2x4-pane windows on first floor, one with horizontal sliding sashes, one with casements. Roof has one crown post truss.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 133).
Listing NGR: SE6055351734

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

Houses, Nos. 42, 43, of three storeys, form one block. No. 42 was built in 1825 (Merchant Adventurers' Co. Minute Book D12), and No. 43 probably soon afterwards, but the N. half of No. 43, which included a through-carriageway, was demolished in 1964. A rainwater head carries the initials I N. Each house now has a transverse staircase between front and back rooms. At the rear is a two-storeyed 15th-century range of two bays, occupied as part of No. 42. It has stuccoed brick walls replacing timber framing, of which little now remains; a central crown-post roof truss with cross-bracing was originally closed and had a partition below. Restored since 1970.

Monument 173; City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 133

NMR Information

BF060566 42-43 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.

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