York Historic Environment Record

Formerly known as: Nos.51 AND 52 STONEGATE. House, now shop. Early C17, raised, extended and altered later: C19 shopfront. Timber-framed, plastered at front, with timber cornice and shopfront; rear of orange-beige brick in stretcher bond; pantile roof with brick stack.

EXTERIOR: 3-storey, 1-bay front, first floor jettied. Shopfront beneath cased jetty bressumer has 2-light window over panelled riser, glazed shop door with overlight to right and passageway entrance further right. First and second floor windows are 12-pane sashes with timber sills. Dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice. Rear: 3 storeys, 1 bay. Timber lintel to passageway. First floor window is 12-pane casement with 1-course segmental brick arch: on second floor, C20 tripartite window with small pane glazing. Vestiges of timber-framing are visible in passageway and in rear wall.

INTERIOR: RCHM records early C19 stick baluster staircase.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 222).
Listing NGR: SE6020852014

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

(457) House and shop, No. 16, framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof, was originally a small two-storeyed building and was heightened to three storeys in the early 19th-century, after 1814. The front elevation, of one bay width, is jettied at the first floor, and has sash windows. At the rear is an 18th or 19th-century addition in brick. Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with square balusters, and some other fittings of that date; on the first floor original cambered tie-beams can be seen on the side walls.

1981. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York. Volume V, the Central Area. P 222. London: RCHME

NMR Information

Name; Westminster House

List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. District of York, 14-MAR-1997

BF061171 WESTMINSTER HOUSE, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

NMR, NMR data (Unassigned). SYO2214.

RCHME, 1981, City of York Volume V: The Central Area (Monograph). SYO65.