The Punch Bowl Hotel

YORK

SE5951SE BLOSSOM STREET 1112-1/20/51 (South East side) 19/08/71 Nos.5, 7 AND 9 The Punch Bowl Hotel

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.5-9 including the Magnet Inn BLOSSOM STREET. Includes: No.2 NUNNERY LANE. Public house and shops, now hotel and public house. c1835 and c1863. Brick with painted stone and stucco dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. The earlier part of the building, facing Blossom Street, is of 5 bays. The windows to the upper storeys are glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. The ground floor is of painted rusticated render and has openings with elliptical arches. The 3rd bay contains a C20 entrance recessed within a wide archway. The 4th and 5th bays have wide window openings. The 2nd bay contains a similar window, with a narrower arched blind recess to its right and a doorway with C20 glazed door to its left. At the far left there is a carriage entrance. A timber gutter is carried on paired brackets. Ridge chimneys to left and right and to right of 1st bay. At the right there is a taller addition with a one-bay rounded corner and with 4 bays facing Nunnery Lane. The windows to the upper storeys are sashed and have sill bands and segmental brick arches with keystones. Above the ground floor there is a continuous timber fascia and bracketed cornice. On the ground floor the corner has 4 windows replacing shopfronts, separated by timber pilasters. These extend as far as the 1st bay of the Nunnery Lane facade. The 3rd bay contains a sashed window flanked by full-height pilasters. The 2nd and 4th bays have doorways with similar pilasters, and 4-panel doors with overlights which have margin panes. Bracketed timber gutter. 3 axial ridge chimneys. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 123).

Listing NGR: SE5975351431