2 And 2A, Coney Street

This building, located at 2 and 2A Coney Street in York, is a shop dating from around 1880. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with cream terracotta dressings and a shopfront. The roof is a slate mansard style, featuring ornate brick stacks.

The exterior has three storeys and a three-bay section on the left, with a one-bay curved corner bay on the right. The shopfront includes part fluted and part panelled Composite pilasters on pedestals, a frieze, and a moulded cornice that extends around the front. The left front's end bay has an upstairs access door that is part glazed and part panelled, topped with a semicircular fanlight. This door is framed by a continuous round-arched architrave with a sunk-panel fasciated keyblock and leaf mouldings in the arch spandrel. The shop entrance is through glazed and panelled double doors, which are recessed in the corner bay behind a round arch supported by moulded corbelled imposts.

The shop windows are made of plate glass and are set in continuous arches, with an elliptical shape on the left front and a segmental shape on the right front. These windows feature sunk panel keyblocks and spandrels decorated with leaves and roses, and there is a blind box over the right window. The upper floor bays are defined by pilaster strips, with the first-floor pilasters made of rusticated panelled blocks that support a moulded string and shallow cornice. The second-floor pilasters alternate between plain and reeded blocks.

First-floor windows are recessed within hollow-chamfered, roll-moulded round arches that have moulded keyblocks, situated above a moulded sillstring and sunk panels. The second-floor windows have shaped heads and lintels, with moulded sills over sunk panels. These windows are 2-light casements, with convex corner ones and semicircular fanlights on the first floor. A heavy console cornice is present at the eaves, below a balustraded parapet that is interrupted by plain pedestal piers and a sunk panel pedestal block over the corner bay. The parapet is topped with moulded coping. The interior has not been inspected.