The Burns Hotel

The Burns Hotel is a public house located at 23 Market Street in York. It was built in the mid-19th century and incorporates an adjacent house from the early 18th century. The early 18th-century section was originally part of a pair with No. 21. The front of the building has a 20th-century public house design.

The early 18th-century part features incised stucco with coved plaster eaves. The mid-19th-century section is constructed of pink and grey mottled brick in Flemish bond at the front and English garden wall bond on the right side. It has a timber shop front and boxed eaves supported by modillions on the right return. Both sections have slate roofs, with the 19th-century part having a hipped roof and brick stacks.

The exterior of the building has a four-storey, two-window front for the 19th-century part on the left, and the 18th-century part has two storeys and an attic with two windows. The entrance to the 19th-century section features sunk-panel pilasters with imposts and a moulded cornice, leading to a half-glazed and panelled door with a radial fanlight. To the left of the entrance are three round-headed radial glazed sash windows above panelled risers. The upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes that diminish in height on each floor, with painted stone sills and flat brick arches. The 18th-century part has 12-pane sash windows with painted stone sills on the ground and first floors, and a gabled dormer with a 2x6-pane sliding sash window in the attic.

The interior has not been inspected, but records indicate that the original plan form survives on the second and third floors.