24-28 Gowthorpe

Late-C18/early-C19 commercial properties with accommodation above, altered in the C19, C20, and C21.

MATERIALS: painted stuccoed brick, and pitched pantile roof (numbers 28 and 26), pitched slate-clad roof (number 24).

PLAN: rectangular plan, three-storey street frontages.

EXTERIOR: the main elevations face southwards onto Gowthorpe. Number 24 occupies the two taller eastern bays, and numbers 26 and 28 occupies the lower three western bays. The ground floor of number 24 has an open passageway to its right that gives access to the rear of two adjacent properties, and the remainder is occupied by a modern late-C19 style double-fronted shopfront, with stylised panelled stall boards, simple fluted pilasters, and square panelled capitals. A modern single shop window occupies the ground floor of number 26, and an off-set modern shop window occupies number 28, both with matching details to those of number 24. The first floor of number 24 has a pair of recessed 16-light sash windows resting on painted ashlar sills, and the second floor has a pair of four-over-eight sashes, beneath a raised coped parapet that obscures the roof. The first floor of numbers 26 and 28 has three recessed four-light sash windows resting on painted ashlar sills, and the second floor is lit by three similar, but shorter sashes, beneath a brick modillion eaves cornice. A round cast-iron Selby Civic Trust award plaque is attached at first-floor level.

The west gable of number 28 is exposed above the roof of the adjacent property; it is coped and terminates in projecting moulded ashlar kneelers. The wall is raised above the level of the steeply pitched pantile-clad roof, and it has a truncated gable chimneystack at its apex, which projects beyond the wall line on a brick base. A similarly truncated stack is situated at the opposite end of the roof, built against the partially exposed fair-faced brick gable wall of No.24. The rendered east gable wall of number 24 is exposed above the roof of the adjacent property, and has a projecting truncated brick chimneystack. The raised parapet has a flat coped return to both gables, of the less steeply pitched 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.