56 And 58, Goodramgate

YORK

SE6052SW GOODRAMGATE 1112-1/27/415 (West side) 19/08/71 Nos.56 AND 58

GV II

Pair of houses and attached tenements; now shops, offices and workshop. Late C18, raised, remodelled and extended in early C19; later C19 alterations and C20 shopfronts. MATERIALS: front of painted brick in Flemish bond: rear and left return of orange-brown brick in random bond, rear raised in English garden-wall bond; cornice and shopfronts of timber; brick stacks to pantile roof, hipped at left side, gabled at rear with stone coping and shaped kneelers. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front. Shopfronts flank passage with plain door leading to rear tenements. First floor windows are 3-light canted bays with 1-pane sashes and dentilled cornices. On second floor, No.56 has one 4-pane sash, No.58 altered paired 1-pane sashes. Moulded console cornice extends full width of front. Rear: 4-storey 3-bay front: left part extended beneath heavy timber lintel supporting gabled loft. Loft has paired shuttered openings in gable end and trapdoor beneath. Right part has 4-pane sash with segmental brick arch on each floor. Left return: 3 storeys, 4 bays; various windows in altered openings. INTERIOR: not inspected but lifting machinery is noted to survive in loft. (RCHM: City of York: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 143).

Listing NGR: SE6045752065