Description

YORK

SE6052SE GOODRAMGATE
1112-1/14/391 (North West side)
14/06/54 No.20
The Golden Slipper Public House

GV II

House, now public house. c1500, extended in C18 and raised in
C19; further extension and remodelling in late C19.
MATERIALS: early structure timber-framed with rendered and
white-washed front and inn front framed in timber; C18
extension of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond;
front of late C19 extension of red brick in Flemish bond on
painted stone plinth and with stone dressings, rear of
orange-cream brick in English garden-wall bond. Slate roofs
with brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: early part is 3-storeyed with attic; 1-window gabled
front is jettied on first and second floors, second floor
jettied also on right return where it has been underbuilt by
The Royal Oak Public House (qv). Gable is finished with
scalloped bargeboard with pointed finial. Extension to left is
of 2 storeys with cellar and attic, and has 2-window front.
3-storey part has inn front of grooved pilasters with
projecting modillioned cornice on grooved brackets, and
disused double doors of raised and fielded panels to right,
2-light window with colonnette mullion over panelled riser to
left. First and second floor windows are 1-pane sashes with
shallow sills, and attic has squat 3-pane window in gable.
Small fixed light in second floor return. Extension has cellar
opening beneath ground floor window. Doorcase to right,
approached by stone steps, has cornice on carved scroll
consoles, grooved pilaster jambs, and door and overlight in
panelled reveal. To left is tripartite window with 1-pane
sashes with shaped heads. Window surround has pilaster jambs
with stone bases and imposts, faceted keyblock and incised
frieze blocks beneath moulded cornice hood: moulded stone sill
on shaped block brackets beneath. First floor windows are
1-pane sashes in round-arched surrounds with pilaster jambs
with stone bases, moulded stone imposts and keyblock, and
stone hoodmould returned on each side to form impost string;
moulded stone sill band as on ground floor. Moulded dentilled
and modillioned eaves cornice with heavy carved terminal
bracket to left. Attic has box dormer with dentilled cornice
on pilaster strips and 1-pane sash window; hipped roof has
wrought-iron corner scrolls. Inn sign in the form of a moulded
slipper in a wrought-iron surround projects between first
floor windows.
Rear: two gabled ranges, left one of 3 storeys and attic,
right one of 3 storeys, both with C20 fenestration.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 142).

Listing NGR: SE6051152188

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Golden Slipper at Wikipedia
• The Golden Slipper official website
• The Golden Slipper public house official website
• Wikidata IDs Q109284705 Q26549091

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)