York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW PAVEMENT 1112-1/28/855 (South East side) No.10 GV II House with shop, now restaurant. c1870, altered c1980. Orange brick in Flemish bond with cast-iron shopfront; timber eaves cornice beneath plain parapet with stone coping; brick stacks to hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4-storey 3-window front. Arcaded shopfront of segmental arches on fluted Composite columns, with rinceaux in spandrels, beneath plain fascia and minimal dentil cornice on moulded brackets: replacement door and windows. First and second floor windows are segment-headed 1-pane sashes beneath segmental arches of gauged brick and vestigial hood- mouldings: those on second floor have painted moulded sills on block brackets, extended to form moulded sill band. On third floor windows are square-headed 1-pane sashes above moulded second floor cornice, with flat arches breaking into frieze below massive moulded eaves cornice on grouped console brackets. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: from 1822 to c1980 the site was occupied by Rowntree's grocery shop: in 1836, Joseph Rowntree was born in an earlier building on the site, in which he lived until 1845 and worked until 1869. (Vernon A: A Quaker Business Man: the Life of Joseph Rowntree, 1836-1925: York: 1982-). Listing NGR: SE6049551750