5 And 7, Nessgate

YORK

SE6051NW NESSGATE 1112-1/28/798 (North East side) Nos.5 AND 7

GV II

Two houses with shops, now one shop. No.7 mid C19, altered in late C19 when amalgamated with No.5. No.5 of cream-grey brick in variant of Flemish stretcher bond with timber shopfront and first floor bay window; brick corbel cornice to slate roof. No.7 of orange-brown brick in English garden wall bond with timber modillion cornice to slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front to No.5 and 3-storey 1-window front, canted on corner, to No.7. Shopfront extends through both buildings and has panelled pilasters beneath coved dentilled cornice between grooved brackets: doors are half-glazed and panelled, and windows of plate glass over panelled risers. No.5 has 3-light canted bay window with moulded dentilled cornice on first floor, with segment-headed 1-pane sashes. Windows on second floor are similar sashes and all have painted stone sills and segmental brick arches. Entrance to No.5 is shop door on canted corner. Windows to Nessgate are 4-pane sashes on both floors, to Coppergate 1-pane sash on first floor and 6-pane sash on second floor, all with painted sills and 1-course cambered arches of brick. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 167).

Listing NGR: SE6034551674