26 AND 27, HIGH OUSEGATE (See details for further address information)

Shops at 26 and 27 High Ousegate (incorporating 3, 5 and 7 Coppergate), York

This is a Grade II listed building comprising three interconnected shop properties, all designed by the architects Hornsey and Monkman and dating to the early 20th century.

Nos.26 and 27 High Ousegate

Built in 1902, this is a three-storey shop with two gabled bays constructed of orange-red brick in English garden wall bond. The ground floor shopfront features painted stone, marble veneer and painted cast-iron detailing. The first floor is of ashlar, and the steeply pitched tiled roof has moulded stone coped gables, brick kneelers and brick cornice stacks banded in ashlar.

The exterior consists of a 3-storey front of 2 gabled bays. The shopfront is framed in partly rusticated pilasters on moulded bases carrying a coved fascia and moulded cornice between cartouche brackets carved with shop numbers. Two shop doors of bevelled glass sit beneath tall segment-headed overlights and are recessed between plate glass windows of segment-arched lights on moulded Ionic colonnettes with arcaded clerestories. The first floor windows are canted bays of 4 mullioned and transomed lights with moulded sill bands and moulded modillion cornices running across the full width of the front. These are surmounted over the bay windows by parapets carved with swags. Second floor windows are paired, opening onto a balcony behind parapets in keyed architraves of raised quoins, conjoined by a blank cartouche. The windows are metal framed casements. Ornate tie plates appear in the gable ends, and the eaves guttering is carried on elongated scrolled brackets.

No.3 Coppergate

This property dates to 1908 with a shopfront of circa 1925. It is constructed of orange brick in Flemish bond, faced with faience on the ground and first floors, with a bronze framed shopfront. The upper floors feature raised chamfered quoins and faience dressings, and a moulded gable coping of faience with ball and pedestal finial. The brick stack is banded with faience to the slate roof.

The building is three storeys and attic with a three-window gabled front. The shopfront contains a recessed glazed door between plate glass windows over marble risers, with a mosaic tiled floor and ceiling panel in a moulded plaster surround. The first floor centre window is tripartite in a stilted round-arched architrave with an acanthus keyblock, between foliate corbel shafts with imposts. Two adorned female figures, partly draped, recline on the arch, and the keyblock incorporates a moulded datestone with an indecipherable monogram. The outer cross windows have eared architraves with shallow swan-neck pediments over tympani moulded with shell and leaf motifs. The sill band is formed by the moulded ground floor cornice, terminating in corbelled shafts with ball finials over a central fascia panel in a scrolled frame. The second floor window is a shallow three-light oriel in a quoined surround with a swagged frieze, moulded cornice and sill band formed by the moulded first floor cornice. Attic windows are paired round-headed lights in stilted arches of quoins and alternating faience and gauged brick voussoirs beneath cornice keyblocks. Attic windows are small-paned, with the others single paned, and all have moulded mullions and transoms. A shaped rainwater head on brackets appears on the second floor.

Nos.5 and 7 Coppergate

Dating to 1902 with a later shopfront, this property was also designed by Hornsey and Monkman. It is constructed of orange-red brick in English garden wall bond with painted stone dressings, the ground floor of glazed brick around a wood framed shopfront. The tiled gabled roof has moulded copings and cast-iron eaves guttering on elongated scrolled brackets.

The building is three storeys and attics with a three-window front. To the right is a three-panel door between small square-latticed windows in quoined surrounds with sill bands beneath a continuous lintel, triple-keyed over the door. The shopfront to the left is framed in pilasters with floral carved panels at the head and a moulded cornice on carved grooved consoles. A glazed door is recessed to the left of a plate glass window framed in bronze over a marble veneer riser and with a mosaic tiled threshold. At the centre of the first floor is a four-light mullioned window in a quoined surround with a cambered lintel, triple-keyed hood and moulded sill. The outer windows rise two storeys as three-light bows, the right one carried on grooved brackets matching those of the shopfront. First floor windows are mullioned and transomed with moulded cornices; second floor windows have coved moulded cornices and moulded plaster panels of peacocks below. At the centre of the second floor is a two-light window in a quoined surround with a moulded sill. Windows throughout are small-pane metal framed casements with moulded mullions and transoms. The gabled attics contain small-pane oval windows in quoined surrounds. Pierced terracotta sunflower air vents appear on the ground floor.

The interiors were not inspected at the time of listing.