Description

YORK

SE6051NW CONEY STREET
1112-1/28/272 (North East side)
19/08/71 Judges' Court and attached front
steps and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CONEY STREET
Judge's Court to rear of Nos 28 and
30)

GV II*

Formerly known as: House in Judges Court occupied by offices
of....and Lee CONEY STREET.
House with front steps and railings, now offices. Early C18
with earlier origins; later C18 and C19 alterations.
MATERIALS: front and both returns of incised stucco, rear of
painted Flemish bond brick; painted and rendered chamfered
plinth, and chamfered quoins and dressings of painted stone:
timber boxed gutters on paired block brackets. Brick stacks on
double span slate roof, gabled at right side behind flat
parapet, and hipped at left. Stone steps with cast-iron
railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attics; 3-bay front, 2
further bays to right masked by abutting rear wing of Nos 28
and 30 (not included). Basement windows in chamfered plinth
are squat 8-pane sashes on each side of front steps. Steps
lead to central front door of 6 raised and fielded panels with
radial fanlight, in keyed and fasciated round arch on plain
pilasters with moulded imposts. Flanking windows are 12-pane
sashes with sills. First floor windows are 4-pane sashes with
sills; gabled dormer with 2-light casement window to attic.
Raised first floor band, returned on left side. Front steps
with stepped-up flat handrail on square section railings,
wreathed at foot around turned standard on shaped curtail
step.
Rear: basement and 2 storeys; 5 windows. Spiral stair to left
of centre leads down to basement door. Two windows are
blocked, the rest various sashes with painted sills and
vestigial brick arches.
Right return: basement, 2 storeys and attics; irregular
fenestration. 12-pane sash windows flank inserted window on
ground floor: on first floor, 4-pane sashes flank inserted
9-pane fixed light: left attic has 2x6-pane window, right one
9-pane fixed light. Fragment of 1-course brick string at
ground floor impost level.
INTERIOR: cellars are brick-vaulted. Ground floor: rooms to
right have bolection moulded doorcases. Both rooms are
panelled: rear room has fine chimneypiece with fireplace of
columns, triglyph frieze and cornice shelf; overmantel of
panelled pilasters. Main staircase to first floor has close
string, turned balusters and square newels with moulded

ramped-up handrail and panelled dado to stairwell. Lower
flights of secondary staircase renewed: upper flights have
turned bulbous balusters and splat balusters to attic. Other
rooms on upper floors have bolection moulded fireplaces. At
rear left of first and attic floors, timber-framed partition
walls are exposed. Roof constructed of re-used timbers. From
mid C18 to 1806, the house was used as Lodgings for Assize
Judges.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 123).

Listing NGR: SE6023451843

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549968

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