York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5751SW FRONT STREET, Acomb 1112-1/18/1187 (South side) 14/06/54 No.2 II House, now shop and office. Late C18 with some C20 alterations. Brick. Slate roof to main building and plain tile to left-hand wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 bays. The facade has a one-course brick band at 1st floor sill level, and a straight joint to the left of the middle bay. The windows are glazing bar sashes. The outer bays have 2-storey canted bay windows. The central window on the 1st floor has a rubbed brick flat arch. The doorcase has thin plain pilasters, and shaped brackets supporting a shallow dentilled cornice. The door has 6 raised and fielded panels, and the overlight is divided into 3 panes. The gutter cornice is dentilled. The gables are coped and have chimneys. Set back to the left is an added 2-storey wing. It has a sash window with 4 over 4 panes on the ground floor, a small casement window towards the right on the 1st floor, and a doorway at the right with a C20 timber doorcase and 6-panel door. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. 2 original fireplaces on first floor. (RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 111). Listing NGR: SE5747951338