Description

YORK

SE6051NE WALMGATE
1112-1/17/1166 (North East side)
19/08/71 Nos.68 AND 70

GV II*

House, now shop and office. c1700, probably with earlier
origins; altered c1985. Orange brick in Flemish bond with
painted tile shopfront; timber cornice to pantile roof with
brick coping and end stacks, one rebuilt.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-window front. Glazed shop door between
plate glass windows. First floor windows are 8-pane sashes
with painted stone sills and segmental arches. Raised brick
bands below and above first floor windows, that below broken
by shopfront. Moulded dentil and modillion eaves cornice,
returned at right end, with inverted bell rainwater head dated
1783.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has moulded and keyed round arch on
pilasters, fluted on hall side and with panelled reveals to
stairhall. Panelled staircase rises around open well from
ground to first floor. Staircase has open string, panelled
treadends, column-on-vase balusters and moulded handrail
ramped-up to column newels: parallel dado panelling ramped up
to fluted pilaster newels. Blocked doorway in
bolection-moulded architrave at foot of stairs. Renewed
round-headed radial-glazed staircase sash flanked by fluted
Corinthian pilasters, one renewed.
First floor: plaster ceiling over staircase in moulded
enriched cornice with circular centre panel and foliate
spandrels. Large front room fitted with bolection-moulded
panelling in two heights beneath moulded cornice. Blocked
fireplace and panelled overmantel flanked by Ionic pilasters
supporting enriched moulded cornice. To left, round-arched
semicircular niche with shaped shelves on moulded brackets. To
right, door of 8 raised and fielded panels to earlier
staircase in keyed round-arched architrave. Small front room
panelled in applied mouldings above dado rail: bold cornice
with guttae over triglyph frieze. Eared fireplace in moulded
surround rising in centre to cornice shelf, with broken
pedimented overmantel panel flanked by foliated volutes. Roof:
ceiled above collar: three cranked principal rafter trusses
visible.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 237-8).

Listing NGR: SE6077951588

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549243

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