York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW PARLIAMENT STREET 1112-1/28/841 (North East side) 24/06/83 Nos.31 AND 32 GV II Two houses with shops. 1836-39, with later alterations and C19 shopfronts. Pink-grey mottled brick in Flemish bond, with moulded timber eaves cornice; brick stacks to hipped slate roof with angle scrolls. EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 3-window front. Shopfront to No.31 has sunk panel pilasters, broad fascia and dentil cornice, and half-glazed door and plate glass windows over raised panel risers: recessed panelled door and overlight in panelled reveal incorporated at right end. Shopfront to No.32, framed in pilasters with imposts, beneath sloped fascia and bold moulded cornice incorporating blind boxes, has half-glazed door on corner. Windows on first and second floors are 12-pane sashes, on third floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all with painted stone sills and flat arches of brick. Fluted bowl rainwater head at left end of cornice. Right return: 4 storeys, irregular fenestration. Shopfront to No.32 returns, partly blocked by painted brick, and incorporates pilastered doorcase to right of centre. Windows are mainly 12-pane sashes, with unequal 9-pane sashes on third floor: openings at left end of second and third floors are blind. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 174). Listing NGR: SE6037651859