18, 20 AND 22, PAVEMENT

The building at 18, 20, and 22 Pavement comprises shops and offices, originally a public house. It was constructed in 1893, incorporating the remains of an earlier house dating from about 1700, particularly within number 18. The front features replacement shopfronts framed by original fluted and carved pilasters, a frieze, and a moulded cornice supported on grooved and gableted brackets. The left-hand doorcase has a raised-panel door with panelled reveals, a carved frieze, a scrolled pediment enriched with flutes and egg-and-dart, and a segment-headed overlight. The first floor has mullioned and transomed sash windows of 2 and 4 lights, with the left bay featuring a 5-light elliptical bow window with a carved lintel. The second floor also has mullioned windows of 2 and 4 lights, with moulded sills, the left one on shaped brackets and with carved lintel. Above the recessed left bay, a carved and moulded first-floor cornice acts as a bressumer, rising into scrolled pediments over each window. A coved eaves cornice over the centre and right bays is pargeted with foliage trails and cartouches; the attic bressumer is carved with stylized floral motifs, incorporating the construction date. The attic window is of 2 lights set in decorative timber-framing. The gable is barge-boarded with winged devil finials at the base of the slopes, and a broken dragon finial at the apex. The pargeting includes two painted representations of the York City Arms. The rear of the building retains an original gabled wall of three stories and attic, with a projecting gabled wing to the left and a three-story, two-window extension to the right. Ground-floor openings have been altered with later sash windows; a raised brick band marks the attic of the original rear wall. The interior has not been inspected.