York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6052SW LOW PETERGATE 1112-1/27/585 (North East side) 01/07/68 No.50 GV II House and offices, now shop. 1838 with C20 shopfront. By JP Pritchett for the Dean and Chapter. Orange-grey brick in Flemish bond with timber shopfront and doorcase; timber modillioned eaves cornice; slate roof, hipped over angled bay, with brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey 3-bay front, right bay angled. Shopfront has glazed door with divided overlight between shallow canted 4-light windows with glazing bars beneath full-width plain cornice. To right is door of 6 sunk panels and patterned radial fanlight deeply recessed in doorcase of sunk-panel pilasters enriched with drops and with foliate capitals, plain frieze with paterae and dentilled cornice. Windows on upper floors differ in size but are 16-pane sashes except for 12-pane sash in centre of second floor: all have narrow painted stone sills and flat arches. INTERIOR: straight staircase with slender turned balusters, square newels and flat handrail visible between ground and first floors. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 187). Listing NGR: SE6033852088