York Historic Environment Record

During the monitoring of ground-reducing works carried out at No 9 King Street, four walls and a well were encountered. It was established from documentary evidence that the walls recorded correlated to outbuildings depicted on the 1852 edition OS map of York. Here, a small courtyard was shown to the rear of the original building. The existence of a courtyard was corroborated by the presence of a well.The iron objects recovered from the top fills of the well seem to corroborate a mid-19th century date for its final phases and backfilling. The walls, possibly dating to the 17th century and the well, dating to the 18th/19th century, were very likely demolished during the remodelling of the building in the second half of the 19th century.