3, Stonegate

YORK

SE6051NW STONEGATE 1112-1/28/1006 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.3

GV II

House, now shop. Mid C18 with early C19 doorcase; C20 alteration and renovation. Brown brick, front in Flemish bond, rear in stretcher bond; red brick dressings, timber eaves cornice and shopfront of cast-iron and timber; slate roof with flat topped dormer and brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 3-bay front. Steps up to 6-panel door behind glazed outer door with radial fanlight in doorcase of fluted half-elliptical columns with acanthus leaf capitals: columns reproduced in arcaded shop window to left, all framed beneath plain cornice. First and second floor windows are 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and narrow painted sills on first floor. 5-course raised band beneath second floor. Heavy moulded eaves cornice. Rear: staircase windows are unequal 9-pane and 12-pane sashes with 1-course segmental brick arches. 4-course raised brick band. INTERIOR: moulded segmental arch on imposts leads to stairhall. Quarter-turn staircase from ground to second floor has close string, column balusters, square newels with attached half balusters and column bottom newel: handrail and stairwell skirting are moulded and ramped up. Top flight apparently replaced. First floor front room sub-divided retaining carved fireplace with garlanded centre panel between arabesques; plaster ceiling cornice enriched with egg-and-dart mouldings. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 226).

Listing NGR: SE6019851984