Numbers 15-21 (Odd) Including Numbers 19A And 21A And Outbuildings Attached At Rear

A row of three houses with attached outbuildings at the rear, located on Blake Street in York. The houses date to 1773, as indicated by the rainwater heads, while the outbuildings are older, dating to 1766. Later alterations occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries, including changes to shopfronts. The buildings were originally constructed for Thomas Haxby, a musical instrument maker.

The houses are built of orange-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with No. 21A painted. They are four storeys high and have six bays. Number 17 features a timber doorcase with plain pilasters, a frieze, and consoles. The door itself is a six-panel design within a round-arched architrave with a fluted band and festooned paterae in the frieze and spandrels. The windows are a mix of casements, one-pane sashes, and four-pane sashes, with squat four- or six-pane sashes on the third floor. A sill band runs across the first floor windows, while others have painted sills and flat, gauged brick arches. Each end of the modillion cornice has an inverted bell-shaped rainwater head, dated and initialled "TH". The outbuildings are also of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond, with some parts rendered, and have slate and plain tile roofs. A two-storey section of the outbuildings includes a six-panel door linking it to No. 15, and a fixed 20-pane window on the first floor. The pyramidal roof has two roof lights. A three-storey section incorporated into No. 21 has casement windows with transoms, featuring raised bands marking the first and second floors, reflecting a two-course brick band in the lower building. Another inverted bell-shaped rainwater head, dated 1766 and initialled "TH,” is located to the right of the eaves.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process. Historical records indicate original staircases with turned balusters, square knops, square newels, and moulded handrails extending from the first floor upwards, along with various original six-panel doors and simple fireplaces.