12 and 12A Church Street

Listed building in York, England September 2026 September 2026 12 and 12A Church Street 1259286 12 and 12A Kings Square 20240521 0178 DxO.jpg Orange-grey-mottled-brick building with shopfronts The King's Square elevation in 2024 Church Street, York, England 53.960255 -1.080504 inline,title 1836 yes1839 yes 20th century (altered and shopfronts) yes yes Grade II Listed Building 12 and 12A, Church Street 24 June 1983 1259286 y none 12 and 12A Church Street is a historic pair of buildings in the city centre of York, England. Dating from 1836 and 1839, and standing at the corner of Church Street and King's Square, they became Grade II listed buildings in 1983.1259286 12 and 12A, Church Street II 21 February 2025 The King's Square elevation adjoins the 16th-century 6 King's Square.1257521 6, Kings Square II 21 February 2025 yes In the 20th century, an iron railing surrounded the tall first-floor window on one of the two fronts at the building's corner.Starkey Krystal 23 April 2018 Time Travel: The Lost Church of King's Square https://yourlocallink.co.uk/time-travel-the-lost-church-of-kings-square/ 21 February 2025 Your Local Link Magazine en-GB Architecture The front is built in orange‑grey mottled brick with moulded timber cornices and slate roofs, hipped over the corner bay, with brick chimneys. The building has two principal elevations on a corner plot. The Church Street front has three storeys plus a mezzanine, arranged in six bays, with one bay angled at the corner. The shopfront to No. 12, entered from King's Square, wraps around the corner and includes a six‑panel upper‑floor door. No. 12A has a part‑glazed door between plate‑glass windows set above beaded panel bases. The mezzanine has a lunette window in a moulded arch over No. 12A; other openings are short six‑pane fixed lights, some replaced with small‑pane casements. The first and second floors have 12‑pane sashes with slender glazing bars, taller on the first floor, with one inserted casement and one blocked window at the left of the second floor. All have narrow painted sills and flat brick heads. The recessed corner bay has a two‑light casement at mezzanine level, a widened first‑floor opening with a two‑by‑five‑pane casement, and an unaltered second‑floor window. The windows in the King's Square bay remain unchanged. A moulded band runs above the mezzanine, and the eaves have a moulded cornice on shaped brackets. On the King's Square front, one bay continues from the Church Street elevation, followed by the main four‑storey, four‑bay front. A six‑panel passage door stands at the left of the shopfront. First‑floor windows are tall 12‑pane sashes on a painted sill band. The second floor has two 16‑pane sashes and two short eight‑pane sashes, all with painted stone sills and flat brick heads. The eaves are finished with a moulded modillion cornice. See also Yorkshire Listed buildings in York (within the city walls, northern part) References Category:1836 establishments in England Category:1839 establishments in England Category:19th century in York Category:Grade II listed buildings in York