York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NE FOSSGATE 1112-1/17/336 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.15 AND 16 GV II Formerly known as: No.13 FOSSGATE. House, now shop. c1600 with late C17 alteration and rear wing; late C19 shopfront, and C20 alteration. Original building timber-framed with white-washed plaster front; timber door hood, shopfront and guttering; brick wing; tiled roofs to both parts, with brick stack at right end of front roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front, upper storeys jettied. Shopfront of grooved pilasters with moulded imposts on tall faceted pedestals and deep projecting fascia between grooved and gableted consoles. Glazed and panelled door with shaped lintel carved with initials MD flanked by plate glass windows between colonnette jambs with moulded capitals and carved spandrels, over raised panel risers. Passage entrance with panelled door at left end, under ribbed shell hood with lion mask boss on shaped brackets. Tripartite bow windows on first floor with 16-pane centre sash; 3-light 8-pane casement windows on second floor. INTERIOR: on ground floor of front building some wall studding, ceiling beams and joists are exposed: rebuilt brick fireplace may obscure earlier one. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 132). Listing NGR: SE6055051779