10, Minster Gates

YORK

SE6052SW MINSTER GATES 1112-1/27/703 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.10

GV II*

One of pair of houses, now shop and offices. c1755 with early C19 shopfront; raised and altered further in mid C19 with demolition of second house. Orange-grey brick in Flemish bond, raised in orange brick; right side rendered; timber shopfront and guttering on paired modillions; tiled roof and brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey 2-window front. Shop window is shallow bow with 3 plate glass lights. To right, 2-leaf half-panelled shop door with bordered lozenge glazing and fanlight, in doorcase of sunk-panelled pilasters enriched with drops and with fluted necking, moulded imposts and swagged frieze. To left, 6-panel upstairs door with Gothick-glazed overlight recessed in similar doorcase with acanthus brackets above pilasters. All beneath moulded cornice. Windows on first floor are 12-pane sashes, on second floor squat 6-pane sashes, all with flat arches of orange gauged brick. Third floor has one 2x4-pane casement window with timber lintel. 5-course raised brick second floor band. Rear: ground floor has wide small-pane window. Other windows have segmental brick arches. Right return: inserted 2-light shop window in plain surround. INTERIOR: ground floor only inspected. Ground floor ceiling incorporates shallow fluted dome in moulded surround supported on fluted columns, one only visible, others probably cased. RCHM records an original main staircase from first-floor upwards with elaborate turned balusters. Some original doors, architraves and fireplaces also survive. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 161).

Listing NGR: SE6032152111