24-28 Gowthorpe

These are a group of late 18th and early 19th century commercial properties with living accommodation above, that have been altered in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

The buildings are constructed of painted stuccoed brick, with pitched pantile roofs to numbers 26 and 28, and a pitched slate-clad roof to number 24. They have a rectangular plan and a three-storey street frontage facing south onto Gowthorpe. Number 24 occupies the two taller eastern bays, while numbers 26 and 28 occupy the three lower western bays.

The ground floor of number 24 has an open passageway to the right, providing access to the rear of two adjacent properties. The remainder of the ground floor features a modern, late 19th century style double-fronted shopfront with stylised panelled stall boards, simple fluted pilasters, and square panelled capitals. Numbers 26 and 28 have modern single shop windows with matching details. The first floor of number 24 contains a pair of recessed 16-light sash windows resting on painted ashlar sills, and the second floor has a pair of four-over-eight sash windows. A raised coped parapet obscures the roof. The first floor of numbers 26 and 28 has three recessed four-light sash windows on painted ashlar sills, and the second floor has three similar, but shorter, sashes, beneath a brick modillion eaves cornice. A round cast-iron plaque acknowledging the Selby Civic Trust is attached at first-floor level.

The west gable of number 28 projects above the adjacent property’s roofline. It is coped and finished with projecting moulded ashlar kneelers. The wall rises above the steeply pitched pantile-clad roof and has a truncated gable chimneystack at its apex, projecting beyond the wall line on a brick base. A similar truncated stack is located at the opposite end of the roof, built against the partially exposed fair-faced brick gable wall of number 24. The rendered east gable wall of number 24, also visible above the adjacent property, has a projecting truncated brick chimneystack. The raised parapet has flat coped returns to both gables of the slate-clad roof. The slate roof of number 24 has an obscured gutter, which drains through the eastern end of the parapet wall into a moulded hopper and a cast-iron downpipe. The pantile roof of numbers 26 and 28 is slightly flared and drains into a box gutter supported by galvanised steel brackets, emptying into a cast-iron downpipe.