York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052SW STONEGATE 1112-1/27/1015 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.13 GV II* Formerly known as: No.27 LITTLE STONEGATE. Formerly known as: Nos.9, 10 AND 11 STONEGATE. Houses and shops; now one shop. Early C15 front range with parallel rear range c1600; later C15 range to Little Stonegate, raised in early C17; refronted and remodelled with new shopfronts c1800. All parts timber-framed and plastered; timber shops fronts and eaves cornice; tile and pantile roofs, with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3-storey fronts, 3 bays to Stonegate, 1 bay to Little Stonegate, with first floor jettied on adjacent fronts: further 3-storey front of 2 gabled bays to Little Stonegate with both upper floors jettied. Corner dragon post cut away to house C17 mermaid figurehead. Stonegate front: centre bay has glazed and flush panelled door with radial fanlight and 3-light bow window with moulded cornice. Right bay has blocked door beneath fanlight to left of former window altered to glazed and sunk-panel door beneath plain overlight. Both shopfronts framed in sunk-panel pilasters beneath acanthus leaf consoles. Left bay has shopfront in plain surround with dentilled cornice with double doors, upper halves glazed in 6 panes over flush panel lower parts, beneath overlight with scrolled glazing bars; to right, small-pane canted bay window projects over flush panel riser. First floor windows are tripartite with 12-pane centre sashes; second floor, 12-pane Yorkshire sashes, left end one blind. Moulded eaves cornice, returned over left side. Little Stonegate front: return of front range has 32-pane shop window over flush panel riser on ground floor, margin-glazed fixed light on first floor and 12-pane Yorkshire sash on second floor. Gabled range has door of 6 flush panels with radial fanlight to right of tripartite shop window with small-pane lights, partly blocked, and folding flush panelled shutter. Frames of all ground floor openings are fluted, with plain frieze blocks, the windows with moulded cornice. First floor windows are Yorkshire sashes each of 2 unequal lights: on second floor, one 12-pane sash, one 4-pane sash. INTERIOR: ground floor of Stonegate range has reset Roman Doric portico with fluted columns and entablature. Rear range has mid C18 staircase with close string, turned balusters, square newels with attached half balusters and moulded handrail: also winder staircase with stick balusters and moulded ramped-up handrail: handsome marble fireplace with fluted shelf on ornate brackets and tiled side pieces. Little Stonegate range: steep newel staircase with stick balusters; fine stone fireplace with panelled jambs, moulded imposts, flat arched lintel and carved keyblock. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 227). Listing NGR: SE6022552010