York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW BLAKE STREET 1112-1/28/46 (North East side) 19/08/71 No.23 (Formerly Listed as: BLAKE STREET Nos 15, 17, 19A, 19, 21A, 23 and 25) GV II House, now shop and flat. Late C18 with late C19 alteration and shopfront. Grey-brown brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressings; timber shopfront and cornice; slate roof and brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 2-window front. Shopfront incorporates two doorways framed in panelled pilasters with imposts and carved consoles at the head; moulded and dentilled cornice between carved segment-headed terminal blocks above. 4-panel doors recessed in plain reveals, approached by stone steps, flank plate glass window with roller blind over panelled riser. Upper floor windows are 1-pane sashes, diminishing in height on each floor, in brick quoined openings with painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original staircase with 3 slender, turned balusters per tread and moulded handrail. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 109). Listing NGR: SE6017652002