Lady Row

Lady Row, York

A row of nine tenements, now comprising five shops and a café, situated on the west side of Goodramgate. Originally constructed in 1317, with substantial later alterations and rebuilding at various periods: parts of Nos. 60 and 62 were rebuilt in the late 18th century; part of No. 60 was rebuilt and extended in the early 19th century; further alterations were made in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The buildings are timber-framed throughout. The fronts are predominantly plastered, with the exception of Nos. 60 and 62: the right bay of No. 60 has a front and right return of incised render, whilst the left bays of Nos. 60 and 62 have painted brick fronts in Flemish bond. The rear elevations display varied brick construction: the ground floor is orange-brown brick in random bond (except No. 64, which is plastered); the upper floor of the first bay of No. 60 is orange-grey brick in English garden-wall bond; the second bay of Nos. 60 and 62 is red-brown brick in stretcher bond; the remainder of the row is plastered. Roofing consists of part-tile and part-slate to No. 60 (hipped to the right), pantile to the remaining buildings, with brick stacks to No. 64 and between Nos. 70 and 72.

Nos. 60 and 62 present a three-storey, three-bay front with a jettied right return and a three-storey single-bay extension to the right. The remainder of the range is two-storeyed with attics to Nos. 68 and 70, a jettied first floor, and seven bays overall. The right bay of No. 60 features a late 19th-century shopfront with a deep fascia and moulded cornice on heavy grooved and scrolled consoles, encasing a dragon post, with a three-quarter glazed shop door and plate glass windows. First-floor windows to the front, return and extension are four-pane sashes; the second floor has an unequal 12-pane sash to the front and unequal 9-pane sashes to the return and extension.

The left bay of Nos. 60 and 62 share a 19th-century shopfront with a moulded cornice between gableted brackets. No. 60 has a three-quarter glazed door beneath an overlight; No. 62 has a half-glazed door between half-canted windows over sunk-panel risers. Both have canted bay windows on the first floor with single-pane sashes and moulded cornices, and paired single-pane sashes with painted sills on the second floor. A raised band runs across the second floor, with timber eaves boards and guttering on console brackets.

No. 64 has a 20th-century glazed and panelled door between canted and cantilevered shop windows of four and five lights. The first floor contains two two-light Yorkshire sash windows, one with four-pane lights and one with six-pane lights.

No. 68 has a glazed and panelled door to the right of a reversed three-light shop window. The first floor contains a two by eight-pane Yorkshire sash window, and the attic features a raking dormer with a two by three-pane Yorkshire sash.

No. 70 comprises three bays: the right bay has a door to the left of a two by six-pane Yorkshire sash window; the left bay has a door to the left of a plate glass window; the third bay has a six-panel door with two glazed panels between small pivoting lights. The first floor has a squat eight-pane sash window to the right, a three by two-pane Yorkshire sash to the left, and in the third bay, a fixed light with a small inserted casement.

No. 72 has a glazed and panelled door to the right of a three-light canted bay shop window and a fixed light at the left end. The first floor contains a three by two-pane Yorkshire sash window.

On the rear elevations, No. 60 has an eight-pane staircase sash in the first bay and a pent porch with a four-panel door and fixed window to the left in the second bay. No. 62 has a blocked doorway to the right of a two-light casement window; both have two-light fixed windows or Yorkshire sashes on the first and second floors, with a brick dentilled eaves course. No. 64 has a six-pane casement window and a gabled dormer with a two by one-pane Yorkshire sash. No. 66 has a vestigial chimney stack with a plain door and a two-light casement window inserted on the ground floor, and two small casements on the first floor; a gabled dormer contains a single-light staircase casement. No. 70 has a boarded stable door to the left of a two by four-pane Yorkshire sash, a similar larger window to the right, and a nine-pane fixed light above. No. 72 has a large casement window.

The interior has been partially inspected. Most of the timber framing is complete, though some later alterations have been made. This range is considered to represent some of the earliest surviving urban vernacular building in England. Nos. 60 and 62 were listed separately on 19 August 1971.