35 AND 36, FOSSGATE

The building at 35 and 36 Fossgate comprises an inn and house, dating to circa 1812, with later alterations. It now functions as shops and a warehouse. The front section is constructed of orange brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring a timber doorcase and shopfronts. The rear sections are of orange-red brick in an English garden-wall bond. The front has a pantile roof with stone coping, while other roof areas are slate or pantile, with brick stacks.

The front elevation presents a three-storey, three-window facade. Number 35 features a doorcase to the right of centre with sunk-panel pilasters, a moulded panel frieze, and a flat cornice hood. The double doors consist of six beaded panels each, with a cross-glazed fanlight recessed within incised panel reveals. To the left are paired shopfronts with plate glass windows framed by sunk-panel pilasters and modillion cornices resting on foliate consoles. Number 36 has a transomed plate glass shop window and a recessed, glazed panelled door with a plain overlight, set within a sunk-panelled reveal and topped by a cornice terminating in gableted scrolled consoles. The first-floor windows of Number 35 are replacements, while that of Number 36 has a five-over-fifteen-over-five-pane sash window. Number 35's second-floor windows are replacement two-light casements, and Number 36 has one unequal nine-pane sash. All windows have flat arches constructed of gauged brick with triple keyblocks and painted sills. An eaves frieze and boxed guttering are supported by paired modillions, with a fluted inverted bell rainwater head at the right end. The left return presents a round-arched opening with a six-panel door and radial fanlight. Ground-floor windows are largely tripartite sashes; elsewhere, four- and twelve-pane sashes are present. Front block windows have painted wedge lintels, while rear block windows have flat arches of soldier bricks.

The interior of Number 35 exhibits an elliptical arch on fluted pilasters dividing the former entrance hall on the ground floor. One former front room retains a moulded cornice, while the other displays a ribbon and candlestick frieze. A main staircase rises to the first floor, featuring an open string, turned balusters (three per tread), and a moulded ramped-up handrail. A back staircase rises to the second floor with a close string, stick balusters, and a flat handrail ramped to column newels. One rear room retains a cast-iron fire grate with a moulded architrave and shelf. The first floor features six-panel raised and fielded or beaded panel doors, with architraves, angle blocks, incised panel window recesses and cupboard doors. A reeded cornice and plaster ceiling rose are also present. On the third floor, several rooms retain original fireplaces and grates; one features an Art Nouveau grate. Doors on the third floor are predominantly six-panel raised and fielded, although one rear room retains an early 18th-century door with two raised panels.