Description

YORK

SE6052SW LOW PETERGATE
1112-1/27/589 (North East side)
14/06/54 Nos.56, 58 AND 60

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.70, 71 AND 72 LOW PETERGATE.
Row of tenements; now shops and flats. c1500, early C17
remodelling as 3 houses with rear wings added; further
alterations and extensions in late C18, early C19 and C20.
MATERIALS: timber-frame; front of No.56 cut back and refaced
in orange brick in Flemish bond; fronts of Nos 58 and 60
rendered; all rendered at rear. Tiled and pantiled roofs with
brick stacks; half-hipped dormer with 2-light casement window
to No.58, 2-pane roof light to No.60.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys: No.56 has jettied first floor, Nos 58 and
60 jettied first and second floors; No.58 has attic: 2 windows
to No.56, 1 window each to Nos 58 and 60.
No.56 has altered C19 shopfront with full-width deep boxed
fascia: glazed door flanked by shallow 3-light canted bay
window on shaped brackets to left and divided plate glass
window to right: at right end, door of 6 raised panels leads
to through passage. First and second floor windows are 16-pane
sashes with narrow painted sills and painted channelled wedge
lintels. Modillioned moulded cornice. No.58 has C20 plate
glass shopfront with 6-panel door. First and second floor
windows are canted oriels with 12-pane sashes. Moulded
entablature and cornice. No.60 has a 3-light bowed shop window
with moulded cornice on each side of glazed and flush-panel
door: glazed and raised-panel side passage door at left end.
First and second floor windows are tripartite bows with large
pane sashes, and 'Britannia' firemark to second floor. Console
eaves cornice.
Rear: No.56 has gabled rear wing and massive stack with
exposed brick fireplace and blocked oven on ground floor. One
first floor window is 16-pane sash; on second floor, 2x9-pane
casement window to left, 9-pane fixed light to right. No.58
has gabled wing with ground floor obscured by later
alterations and 12-pane sash on second floor. No.60 has gabled
wing with glazed and panelled door and 9-pane window on ground
floor, 4-pane sash on first floor, 2x9-pane casement on second
floor.
INTERIOR: No.56: ground floor: timber-framed partition wall
exposed in side passage. Shop retains painted stone fireplace
with basket grate in bolection moulded surround and moulded
cornice shelf. First floor: front room fireplace has enriched
sunk-panel jambs, frieze of garlands and urns, and plain
shelf: moulded plaster overmantel incorporates Stuart Arms
between arabesque and strapwork panels. 2-panel cupboard door
on H-hinges to right. Early C19 staircase to second floor has
close string, stick balusters, turned newels with bulbous

bases and moulded flat handrail. Second floor: doors from
landing include C17 square-panel cupboard door on H hinges,
three early C18 2-panel doors, one on butterfly hinges re-used
in later frame, and one 5-panel door to rear room. Front room
divided by stud partition wall. Small room has round headed
grate in simple moulded fireplace. Back room has duck's nest
grate in plain fireplace with moulded shelf. Staircase to
attic has close strings, bulbous balusters on vase bases,
square newels with half balusters attached and moulded flat
caps, and heavy moulded handrail. Attic: stud partition wall
between front rooms. Re-used original plank doors.
No.58: ground floor: entrance hall has moulded cornice:
moulded round arch on imposts, now blocked by C20 door, to
stairhall. Shop has blocked corner fireplace in panelled
surround with eared moulded overmantel panel; enriched moulded
cornice. Close string winder staircase to attic has
concave-sided stick balusters, turned newel and serpentine
moulded handrail. First floor: moulded cornices to landing and
back room: front room has cased beams with enriched soffits
and moulded dado rail. Second floor: corner fireplace with C19
grate in C18 plain moulded surround in back room:
timber-framed walls visible in cupboard off rear room. Attic:
two re-used square-panel doors on cockshead hinges.
No.60: timber-frame including studded partition walls
substantially intact. Winder staircase from first to second
floors has serpentine handrail and moulded dado rail. On
second floor, door to rear room is plank with pegged on
panels. Two altered crown posts survive in front range attic.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 189).

Listing NGR: SE6036552063

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 56–60 Low Petergate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549820

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