York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE 1112-1/28/576 (North side) 14/06/54 Nos.10 AND 12 GV II Formerly known as: No.16 LOW OUSEGATE. Pair of houses with shops. 1810-20; mid C19 shopfront to No.10 and C20 shopfront to No.12. No.10 of orange brick, No.12 of brown brick, both Flemish bond, with window arches of orange gauged brick; moulded stone eaves cornice to slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 4-window front. Central door of 6 raised panels beneath radial fanlight, approached by stone steps, leads to rear yard: doorcase is moulded round arch on pilasters with imposts. Shopfront to left is framed in channelled pilasters beneath plain frieze and shallow moulded cornice, and with blind box above. Shop door is margin-glazed and panelled, between elliptical small-paned bow windows with thin glazing bars, over beaded panelled risers. On first floor, No.10 has two unequal 15-pane sashes, No.12 two 8-pane sashes; on second floor, both have unequal 9-pane sashes, and on third floor squat 6-pane sashes: all have sills and flat arches. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.12 was first listed on 24/06/83. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157). Listing NGR: SE6026051692