York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW ST SAMPSON'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/971 (North West side) 19/08/71 No.6 GV II House, now part of department store. Mid C18, with later alteration and C20 shopfront. Rendered brick, colour-washed, with timber shopfront and eaves cornice, and slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Shopfront incorporates 6-panel passage door at left end. Windows are unequal 15-pane sashes on first floor, and unequal 9-pane sashes on second floor, all in moulded surrounds with narrow sills. Bold modillion eaves cornice with fluted bowl rainwater head at left end. INTERIOR: not accessible. RCHM record an open string staircase with turned balusters, and top flight with re-used balusters c1700; first floor room with fluted architraves and angle roundels; on second floor, a moulded stone fireplace surround. This house was incorporated into the Golden Lyon Inn (No.5 St Sampson's Square, qv). (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 207). Listing NGR: SE6031851920