Description

YORK

SE6052SW HIGH PETERGATE
1112-1/27/457 (South West side)
14/06/54 No.9
and attached outbuildings

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.8 HIGH PETERGATE.
Includes: Cottage at rear of No.11 HIGH PETERGATE.
House and attached outbuildings; now restaurant. Early C17;
altered and outbuilding added in early C18; mid C19 shopfront
and alterations; further alterations and extensions in C20.
MATERIALS: timber-framed house with stucco front; rear of
orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond; slate roof,
gabled to street in two parallel ranges; massive brick ridge
stack to right range. Outbuildings of red brick in stretcher
bond, partly rendered, with slate roofs, some hipped, and
brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: house: 3 storeys and attics; twin gabled front with
jettied first and second floors. Shopfront in plain surround
with minimal cornice beneath first floor jetty: half-glazed
door between large-pane windows with flat sills. Former
passage door of 6 fielded panels with divided overlight at
left end. First and second floors have 2-storey canted bay
windows, with 20-pane sashes between 8-pane sashes. Second
floor has 5-light casement windows with small-pane glazing and
pent roofs. Attic windows are 2x2-pane Yorkshire sashes. Rear:
3 storeys and attics; twin gabled front. Ground and first
floors obscured by outbuilding: attic windows are squat
16-pane sashes. Moulded brick surround to blocked original
window survives in right gable.
Outbuildings: 1 and 2 storeys. Part entered through rear of
No.9. Front towards No.11 (qv) has C20 1-storey pent extension
containing board door at left end. Further left is 16-pane
sash window with 1-course segmental brick arch; left again is
louvred door beside 2x6-pane Yorkshire sash window. Rear
towards No.7 (qv) partly hidden by garden wall: first floor
has 12-pane sash windows and brick string course.
INTERIOR: ground floor: staircase to second floor has close
string, turned balusters, square newels with attached half
balusters and moulded ramped-up handrail: plain fireplace with
early C19 hob grate. Second floor: front room to right has
brick fireplace with 3-centred arch: in back room, stone
fireplace has incised keyblock and cast-iron grate: to right
is plank cupboard door on H-hinges. Timber-frame exposed in
various parts of building: on second floor, frame, walls and
partitions survive virtually intact. Attic: roof of collar
rafter trusses, rafters carried on the backs of single
purlins: partition walls of studs with plastered brick infill:
2- and 3-panel doors.
Part of outbuilding is in ownership of the occupants of No.11

(qv).
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 183).

Listing NGR: SE6015252198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Eagle & Child at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549881

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)