1, 3 And 3A, Castlegate

This building, located at 1, 3, and 3A Castlegate in York, is a house that has been converted into two shops. It dates from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the early 19th century and later. The structure is made of dark red brick laid in Flemish bond and features a timber eaves cornice with moulding and modillions. The roof is tiled and includes roof lights and brick stacks.

The exterior has a three-storey, two-window front and was originally designed with a central entrance hall. The central entrance has a glazed door with a cross-glazed overlight, framed by a triple-keyed eared architrave. To the left, there is a glazed shop door in a similar architrave, accompanied by a small-pane bowed shop window. To the right, a 20th-century shopfront includes plain pilasters, a frieze, and a moulded cornice, featuring a part-glazed door with a radial fanlight and a small-pane shop window.

On the first floor, the left window is a shallow bow with unequal 15-pane sashes beneath a panelled frieze and moulded cornice, while the right window is a 12-pane sash. The second floor features a tripartite window with a 12-pane central sash on the left and another 12-pane sash on the right. All windows, except for the bow window, have flat arches made of gauged brick. There are broad raised brick bands at the first and second floors, with the first-floor band interrupted by the bow window. A rainwater head at the left corner of the cornice bears the initials EP and the date 1758.

At the rear, the right return has a carriage arch leading to No. 7 Castlegate and features a 20-pane sash window on the first floor, along with a brick dentil eaves cornice.

Inside, the staircase at the rear of the entrance passage rises from the ground to the second floor. The first flight has an open string, while the upper flights have a close string. The balusters are column on vase style, with two balusters for each stair on the lower flight, and the handrail is moulded and ramps up. On the ground floor, the shop to the left has cornices in both the front and back rooms, and a quarter-round moulded spine beam in the front room. On the first-floor landing, one leaf of panelling remains, and in the room to the left at the top of the stairs, there is a cupboard door on H-hinges, both featuring two raised and fielded panels.