30 AND 32, GOODRAMGATE (See details for further address information)

Nos. 30 and 32 Goodramgate, York

Medieval houses with an attached minster gatehouse, now converted to shops, a cafe, and flats. The main building dates to the 14th century. The gatehouse was rebuilt around 1600 and again in 1903. The complex has undergone alterations in the 16th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, received late 19th-century extensions, and was substantially remodelled in the 20th century with contemporary shopfronts.

The original structure is timber-framed. Later alterations and extensions employ brick in various forms, painted at the front. The roof at the front is tiled, with pantile to the rear and brick stacks. Parallel ranges run to the right, originally gabled to the street but now half-hipped with pantile roofing.

Goodramgate Front

The frontage presents two storeys across four bays, with a bay projecting left of centre. A two-storey single-bay gatehouse sits set back to the left.

The principal entrance is a left-of-centre door of six raised and fielded panels in fluted borders, topped by a radial-glazed fanlight within a fluted architrave with angle roundels. To its right, No. 30 features a shopfront framed in sunk-panel pilasters with a cornice, a three-quarter glazed and panelled door recessed between arcaded windows over sunk-panelled risers. No. 32's shopfront is framed in sunk-panel pilasters with roundels at the heads, a plain fascia, and a moulded cornice. Its three-quarter glazed and panelled door sits beneath an overlight of two round-arched lights in a splayed corner, flanked by round-arcaded shop windows on colonnettes with imposts and sunk-panelled risers.

The first floor features four 12-pane sashes beneath a dentil cornice, set between grooved corbels and returned to the left.

The gatehouse is open on the ground floor and displays one 2-by-12-pane horizontal sliding sash window and exposed studding on the first floor.

College Street Front

This elevation presents two storeys with a gabled wall to the gatehouse, a one-bay extension to the left, and a two-storey four-window range in front.

The gatehouse stands on a massive corner post with an enlarged head and braced posts, displaying exposed studding on the first floor. The gabled left return contains a three-light mullion window with square lattice glazing on the first floor, along with exposed studding and a roof truss featuring a cambered tie beam and collar.

A subsidiary entrance to No. 32 Goodramgate comprises a glazed and panelled door to the right of a small-paned bay window on brackets, beneath a continuous fascia and moulded cornice. Further left is a door of six raised and fielded panels beneath a divided overlight.

No. 12 College Street has a shopfront with a six-panel door and divided overlight to the left of a single-pane shop window with transom light, under a plain fascia and cornice.

Interior

Ground floor: No. 30 Goodramgate contains a cantilevered staircase to the first floor with treadends ornamented with triglyphs and roundels, a balustrade of angular cast-iron panels and a serpentine handrail wreathed at the foot on a shaped curtail step, and a frieze of triglyphs and roundels to the stairwell. The front doorcase has sunk-panel jambs and a moulded round-arched head. A similar doorcase occupies the rear of the cafe. Both Nos. 30 and 32 contain fireplaces with elliptical brick arches, chamfered in No. 30. No. 12 College Street retains 19th-century display cabinets with glass doors.

First floor: No. 30 Goodramgate preserves portions of fluted plaster cornice at the head of the stairs, and its back room retains a plain stone fireplace with hob grate. No. 32 Goodramgate has timber-framing surviving in its original external walls and studded partitions between the front and back rooms, gatehouse chamber, and extension. The gatehouse chamber exhibits exposed chamfer-stopped beams. A six-panelled door separates the front and back rooms. Some posts survive in the College Street range.