1, Chapter House Street

This is a house, possibly dating back to the 15th century or earlier, located on Chapter House Street, York. It was significantly remodelled in the 18th century and altered again around 1840 and later. Originally timber-framed, the ground floor is now of coursed squared magnesian limestone, while the first floor is brick, partly in a painted Flemish bond pattern. It has a tiled roof, with one end hipped and eaves guttering with paired modillions, and brick stacks.

The building is two and three storeys high with four bays. A six-panel door with a radial fanlight is recessed within a round-arched opening on the left end, accompanied by a 20th-century window with paired six-pane lights and panelled shutters. In the centre bays is a glazed and panelled door beneath a painted stone lintel, and a 20th-century window with a four-pane fixed light. The left end bay has a 16-pane sash window on the first floor, the centre bays have two four-pane sashes on the first floor and one unequal 12-pane sash on the second floor, and the right end bay has no openings. The rear elevation, visible from No.4 Minster Yard, features a shallow canted bay window on the ground floor with a 20-pane centre sash, and a blocked window on the first floor, both with one-course brick arches. The left gable displays vestigial timber framing above No.3 Chapter House Street. The right return has a 16-pane sash window with a painted stone sill and a one-course flat arch. A continuous two-course raised brick band is visible on all fronts.

Inside, a close-string staircase with turned balusters, square newels with attached half balusters, a heavy moulded handrail, and a reset 17th-century door are located beneath the first-floor landing. A room at the head of the stairs has square panelling including two doors. One room has an 18th-century painted stone fireplace with a plain architrave, a fluted frieze, and a moulded shelf; a cupboard door with four raised and fielded panels is on the right. A secondary staircase to the attic has a shaped treadend, slender turned balusters, a column newel, and a moulded flat handrail. The second floor has two re-used 18th-century panelled doors at the top of the stairs. The original roof was likely a crown post type with longitudinal wind braces, with fragments surviving behind wall linings in a bathroom and bedroom.