Building record MYO1280 - 3-5 Low Ousegate

Summary

Numbers 3-5 Low Ousegate. Built as a pair of houses with shops circa 1810-20, now a single shop.

Location

Grid reference SE 6027 5165 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW
Civil Parish York, City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (4)

Full Description

Two houses with shops; shops now combined. 1810-1820 with C20 shopfront; exterior renovated 1992. Orange-grey brick in Flemish bond, with window arches of orange gauged brick; No.5 completely painted. Timber mutule eaves cornice to slate roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 4-storey front with irregular fenestration. Each house has two 12-pane sashes on first floor, with additional tall 8-pane sash to No.5; on second floor, both have one unequal 9-pane sash, with one blocked window to No.3 and one unequal 6-pane sash to No.5; on third floor, each has one squat 6-pane sash, one blocked window to No.3, and one 4-pane sash to No.5. All windows have flat arches of brick, and all on second and third floors have sills. Two painted cast-iron cats are fixed to the fronts, one on the sill of the blocked second floor window to No.3, the other to the wall between second floor windows to No.5. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157).
Listing NGR: SE6027451650

Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005

Related Object from NMR data: BF060965 3-5 LOW OUSEGATE, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

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Record last edited

Mar 18 2020 3:22PM

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