1, Museum Street

No. 1 Museum Street is a building in York that was originally constructed as a register office in 1860 and has since been adapted for use as council offices. Designed by Rawlins Gould, the building features orange brick laid in Flemish bond, complemented by a moulded stone plinth and dressings. The ground floor has rusticated pilaster strips made of faceted blocks, while the first floor showcases ashlar pilasters. The roof is slate, with a brick parapet that includes stone piers and coping, along with brick stacks.

The exterior consists of a two-storey front with 11 bays, including a curved corner bay. The main entrance features a round-arched doorcase with two orders, sunk-panel pilasters, a vermiculated keyblock, and panelled double doors topped with a fanlight. A subsidiary entrance on the right end has panelled double doors with an overlight set in an eared segment-arched architrave. The windows are segment-headed, framed by architraves with bracketed moulded sills, and set within shallow segment-arched recesses that also feature vermiculated keyblocks. Many of the original 8-pane sash windows have been altered.

The ground floor pilaster strips support a moulded cornice, while the first floor is articulated with Doric pilasters on sunk-panel pedestals that support a broad frieze and an ornate console-bracket cornice. Above this is an open-arcaded parapet that incorporates sunk-panel pedestal piers. Most windows on the first floor are 4-pane sashes, set in stone architraves with moulded sills and cornices, and are topped with alternately triangular and segmental bracketed pediments. The interior has not been inspected.