York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW CONEY STREET 1112-1/28/259 (North East side) 24/06/83 No.32 GV II House, now shop. c1600; altered and extended in mid C18 and remodelled in early C19; C20 alterations and shopfront. Timber-framed core, encased in red and black mottled brick in Flemish bond at front; attic behind vertical boarding above moulded modillion eaves cornice. Rear of orange-brown brick in English garden wall bond. Slate roof, hipped at front. EXTERIOR: original building 3 bays deep, gabled to street; extension added at rear. 3 storeys and attic; 1-bay front. Shopfront has recessed doors between curving plate glass windows. First floor window is shallow bow with 3 unequal 12-pane sashes beneath fluted frieze and moulded cornice. On second floor, window is unequal 12-pane sash with painted sill and flat arch of gauged brick. First and second floor windows are contained within full height shallow elliptical arched niche. Boarded attic has small square opening. Rainwater head embossed with winged cherub head at left end of cornice. Rear: ground and first floors obscured by later extensions. On second floor is large elliptical arched opening, now partly blocked and with altered window. In attic 2x4-pane sliding sash window. INTERIOR: first and second floor front rooms have heavy moulded cornices and transverse beams partitioning ceilings: cornices cut back at front. Reset staircase with close string, slender turned balusters and plain handrail, rises from first to second floors. Attic at front has trusses of arched collared principals supporting single purlins: rear attic has lime ash floor. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 124). Listing NGR: SE6022551826