The Punch Bowl Hotel

The Punch Bowl Hotel, formerly known as Nos. 5-9 including the Magnet Inn, is a public house and hotel located on Blossom Street in York. It was built around 1835 and 1863 and features a brick structure with painted stone and stucco details, topped with a slate roof.

The exterior of the building is three storeys high, with the older section facing Blossom Street consisting of five bays. The upper storey windows are glazing bar sashes set beneath brick flat arches. The ground floor is finished in painted rusticated render and features openings with elliptical arches. The third bay includes a 20th-century entrance that is recessed within a wide archway, while the fourth and fifth bays have large window openings. The second bay has a similar window, with a narrower arched blind recess to its right and a doorway with a 20th-century glazed door to its left. A carriage entrance is located at the far left. The building has a timber gutter supported by paired brackets, and ridge chimneys are positioned to the left and right, as well as to the right of the first bay.

To the right, there is a taller addition with a one-bay rounded corner and four bays facing Nunnery Lane. The upper storey windows in this section are also sashed, featuring sill bands and segmental brick arches with keystones. Above the ground floor, there is a continuous timber fascia and a bracketed cornice. The ground floor corner has four windows that replace shopfronts, separated by timber pilasters, extending to the first bay of the Nunnery Lane facade. The third bay includes a sashed window flanked by full-height pilasters, while the second and fourth bays have doorways with similar pilasters, featuring four-panel doors with overlights that have margin panes. The building also has a bracketed timber gutter and three axial ridge chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.