15, 17 AND 17A, YORKERSGATE

15, 17, and 17A Yorkersgate are two shops with offices above, likely built in the late 18th century and refronted around 1840, with later 19th and 20th-century alterations. No. 15 features painted brick in Flemish bond at the front and mottled brick at the rear. The front of No. 17 is made of pink and cream mottled brick in Flemish bond, with orange-red gauged brick quoins and dressings. It has a timber doorcase and shopfront, while the rear is constructed from coursed squared stone with a wing of orange-red brick, partly rendered. Both buildings have pantile roofs, hipped at the right end of No. 17, with brick stacks on the left side of each.

The front of both buildings is three stories tall, with one window for No. 15 and three windows for No. 17. No. 15 has a 20th-century shop front with glazed double doors that extend into No. 17. The first-floor window is a three-light canted bay with single-pane sashes and a moulded cornice, while the second floor features a 20th-century top-hung window with a painted stone sill. There is a plain timber eaves band.

No. 17 has a central round-arched doorcase with fluted pilasters, a frieze, moulded imposts and cornice, and a recessed four-panel door with a plain fanlight. The shop front to No. 15 is on the left, while on the right is a 19th-century shop front with panelled pilasters, rosettes in frieze blocks, and a projecting cornice. A half-glazed door with an overlight is recessed to the left of a square bay window with three ogee-arched lights on colonettes, above a fluted riser. The first floor features a three-light canted bay with single-pane sashes between pilaster mullions that incorporate fluted panels and have a moulded cornice. The remaining windows are four-pane sashes, with the second-floor windows being squat and set in brick quoined surrounds with painted stone sills. The first-floor windows have flat arches, while those on the second floor have plain lintels, and there is a corbelled eaves cornice.

Inside No. 17, in the ground-floor room to the left, there are two round-arched niches on fluted pilasters with moulded imposts that survive.