12-15, NEWGATE

A row of five houses, now four shops, located at 12-15 Newgate, York. The buildings date back to 1337 and underwent significant alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries, with rear extensions partially obscuring the ground floor.

The original construction was timber-framed and jettied at both the front and rear. The fronts are rendered and whitewashed, while the rears have a mix of materials: No. 12’s rear is rendered and raised in brick, now whitewashed; Nos. 13 and 14 feature 18th-century orange-red brick in Flemish bond, raised in pink-grey mottled brick and also whitewashed; and No. 15 is rendered and whitewashed. Roof materials vary: No. 12 has tiling, Nos. 13 and 14 have a corbelled slate roof at the front and pantiles at the rear with a brick stack at the rear of No. 13, and No. 15 has a steeply pitched pantile roof with valanced eaves at the front and a raised, gabled rear.

No. 12 is two storeys and has an attic, with a single-window jettied front. It features a shopfront set behind vestigial ground floor framing, including the original door post, a window of paired unequal 6-pane sashes on the first floor, and 2x6-pane casements in a gabled attic dormer. A narrow 12-pane sash is visible in the exposed first-floor framing at the rear, along with a flat-topped dormer with paired top-hung 9-pane lights to the attic. Nos. 13 and 14 present a three-storey, three-window front, with the jetty cut back. No. 13 has a panelled door to the left of a 1-pane window, both with heavy painted lintels. No. 14 has a double shopfront with a glazed and panelled door between 4- and 5-light mullion and transom windows, framed by plain pilasters with imposts, a broad fascia, and a cornice supported by elongated console brackets. First-floor windows are 4-pane sashes, and second-floor windows are 2x1-pane Yorkshire sashes. The rear of Nos. 13 and 14 displays vestigial framing and 20th-century windows on the first floor, with the second-floor windows mirroring those on the front. No. 15 has a two-storey jettied front, featuring a shopfront with a glazed and panelled door to the left of a small-pane bow window framed by plain pilasters with a dentil cornice supported by carved corbels. A 2-light window with a raised architrave and painted sill is located on the first floor. The rear of No. 15 has 20th-century windows.

The interior of Nos. 13 and 14 contains a large 17th-century chimney breast on the first floor.