York Historic Environment Record

House, now shop, cafe and flats. Late C18 with late C19 and early C20 alterations. Painted brick. Plain tile roof in 2 halves, the right-hand one with a higher ridge.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic. 3 bays. On the ground floor there are 2 shop fronts with recessed doorways, timber pilasters, and cornices. Both have C20 blinds, and the fascia of the left-hand shopfront is covered by a C20 board. At the left on the 1st floor there is a canted sashed oriel window with a brick base. The other 2 first floor windows are sashes without glazing bars. Above the 3rd bay there is a sashed flat-roofed attic dormer. The central doorway has a timber pilaster doorcase with a dentilled cornice and a plain rectangular overlight. The door has 6 panels with moulded borders. The gutter is carried on rectangular timber brackets. Chimneys to left and right. INTERIOR: not inspected.

(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 74). Listing NGR: SE6023752438

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

House, Nos. 68, 68a, was built in the late 18th century; it is of two storeys and was originally four bays wide but the front has been completely altered with shop fronts below and new windows above. The original plan was L-shaped but the re-entrant angle has been filled in, and the interior much altered.

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 74. Monument 136

NMR Information

BF060599 68-68A GILLYGATE, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

NMR, NMR data (Unassigned). SYO2214.

RCHME, 1975, RCHME Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse (Monograph). SYO2424.