11 AND 12, FOSSGATE

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE 1112-1/17/333 (North East side) Nos.11 AND 12

GV II

House and fishmonger's shop; now restaurant. Dated 1898 with C20 shopfront. Red brick in English garden-wall bond, with dressings of moulded brick and buff faience; pantile roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-bay front, the centre bay pedimented. Shopfront has plate glass windows, central doorway and upstairs door at right end. Upper floor articulated by pilasters with moulded sunk panels enclosing floral motif, raised on pedestals with moulded coping extending full width of outer bays. Entablature comprises panelled frieze and moulded dentilled cornice beneath panelled parapet interrupted by pedestal piers crowned with ball finials: frieze and parapet panels moulded with garlands of fruit. Scrolled pediment to centre bay has moulded eagle finial, and tympanum incorporating date, monogram of YAC and the York City shield of arms embedded in palm fronds. Centre window is recessed beneath elliptical arch with grooved keyblock on 4 orders of colonnettes with moulded capitals: window is canted bay with Ipswich window in centre beneath scrolled pediment. Outer bays have cross-windows with casements beneath flat arches of rubbed brick with grooved keyblocks and moulded sunk panels below incorporating garlanded fruits. Fine scrolled bracket at centre of first floor supports pendant lantern. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included for group value as an integral part of Fossgate.

Listing NGR: SE6055451798