Description

YORK

SE6051NW BRIDGE STREET
1112-1/28/126 (North side)
No.17

GV II

Department store, now shop and offices. Dated 1911. Orange-red
brick in English garden wall bond; window arches of orange
gauged brick with buff terracotta dressings; pilasters,
cornice and parapet coping of faience; slate roof, in 3
parallel ranges, gabled at rear.
EXTERIOR: Bridge Street front 3 storeys, 3 bays, with
subsidiary bay set back at right end. Rusticated ground floor
with rusticated pilaster strips, outer ones with carved laurel
garlands in frieze blocks. Upper floors articulated by giant
Ionic pilasters carrying plain entablature with cornice
enriched with bead mouldings. Parapet obscures roof. 3
shopfronts on ground floor, 2 with curved corners and glazed
double doors, left one later replacement. Each bay on first
floor has one 2-light plate glass window with segmental
transom. On second floor, centre bay has clock in moulded
stone roundel between rusticated dwarf pilasters with moulded
imposts, flanked by narrow cross windows; outer bays each have
three cross windows. Raised second floor band forms sill band
to outer bay windows. Date stone beneath clock.
Right return to river: 3 storeys, 4 unequal bays. Shopfronts
on ground floor between rusticated pilaster strips with
egg-and-dart impost mouldings. First floor windows recessed
beneath segmental arches of radiating voussoirs on rusticated
piers, behind balconies balustraded with plain railings and
inset patterned panels. Windows are of 3 lights and
incorporate doors with inset oval lights.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6015551682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550474

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