Row Of Tenements Attached To Number 24 Fossgate

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE 1112-1/17/340 (North East side) No.24

GV II

Includes: Row of tenements attached to No.24 Fossgate STRAKER'S PASSAGE. House, and row of 3 tenements attached at rear fronting on Straker's Passage; now shop. Early C19 with later C19 shopfront and windows. MATERIALS: brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stone dressings and timber guttering on paired modillions; shallow-pitched slate roof with left end brick stack. Tenements of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond, pantile roof and brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window front. Shopfront of fluted pilasters beneath plain fascia and cornice, between fluted consoles. Small-pane shop door with overlight recessed between plate glass windows: flat arch to Straker's Passage to right. First and second floor windows are 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills and channelled wedge lintels with keyblocks. Tenements: 2-storey 3-window front. Ground floor openings blocked or altered. On first floor, two of three original 16-pane sash windows survive. Openings have flat arches of orange brick. INTERIOR: of house: close string staircase with stick balusters, slender turned newels and ramped-up moulded handrail rises from first to second floor. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 133).

Listing NGR: SE6057351755