The Kiosk

The Kiosk is an electrobus booster station and terminus that has been converted into a shop. It was built in 1915 and altered in 1922, designed by the City Engineer. The building features orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond, with some areas rusticated and others filled with herring-bone patterns in planted timber-framing. It has a tiled gableted roof with overhanging bracketed eaves.

The exterior is a single-storey structure divided into two unequal bays, marked by rusticated brick piers. The left bay has a three-leaf glazed folding door flanked by one-light fixed windows set in a planted timber-framed screen. The right bay contains a two-light window at the back of a former shelter recess. The left return features a two-light window, while the right return has a plain door.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the building served as both a terminus shelter and a battery re-charging station for electrobuses introduced in York in 1915, which operated until 1920. In 1922, it was granted permission to be converted into a kiosk selling tobacco and sweets. York was one of only eight towns in Britain to operate battery-powered electrobuses.