York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052SW GOODRAMGATE 1112-1/27/414 (East side) 14/06/54 Nos.55 AND 57A (Formerly Listed as: GOODRAMGATE No.55) GV II Formerly known as: No.40 GOODRAMGATE. Pair of houses; now restaurant and shop. Early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations and extensions; C20 shopfronts. Front of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond to No.55, rendered to No.57A; timber cornice and shopfronts; hipped pantile roofs with brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 5-window front. No.55 has small-pane shop window and door with divided overlight: No.57A has glazed double door recessed to left of plate glass window. Shopfronts flank plain passage opening, now closed by iron gate. On first floor, No.55 has two 12-pane sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and 2-light casements on second floor. No.57A has three 1-pane sashes on both floors, taller on first floor, in plain raised surrounds with painted sills. Heavy moulded and modillioned cornice extends full width of front. Rear: through passage has round-headed rear arch with moulded keyblock. No.55 has inserted bow window opening on to passage. Ground floor of No.57A obscured by extensions to adjacent property. INTERIOR: No.57A only inspected: it has close string staircase with turned balusters and flat moulded handrail ramped up to square newels with attached half balusters survives between first and second floors. RCHM records similar staircase to No.55. No.57A is a new addition to the list. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 140). Listing NGR: SE6048652074