Crafting The Past
36/34 Coney Street

36/34 Coney Street

From the  An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central
GV II
Shop and flat. c1880, with C20 alteration and restoration in
1991. Cream brick in Flemish bond with cast-iron shopfronts;
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic; 3-bay front. Shopfront on
Composite columns and cornice on acanthus volutes with C20
plate glass windows and door. Similar shopfront on first floor
has fluted Composite columns and dentilled cornice on acanthus
volutes, with three segment-headed lights. Windows on second
and third floors are 3-light replacements.

Rear: 4 storeys, 1 bay. Openings on ground and first floors
boarded up. Canted bay window rises through second and third
floors, with sashes on both floors, centre one on second floor
blocked, and 4-pane window on third floor.
INTERIOR: no original fittings survive on ground and first floors. From second floor, open string staircase with turned balusters, turned newel and serpentine handrail rises to attic. Front room has Doric fireplace of marble, with triglyph
frieze blocks and plain mantelshelf; cast-iron fireplace has angle roundels and tiled reveals. Moulded ceiling rose and cornice, partly restored. In room behind staircase is early C20 cooking range. Room at rear has marble chimney piece with
corbelled shelf on pilasters, and tiled reveals; plain ceiling cornice and rose. On third floor, front room has fire surround with corbelled shelf, cast-iron grate with floral frieze and pansy tiles; plain ceiling cornice and rose. In middle room, painted stone chimney piece with chamfered jambs and round-headed cast-iron grate. Back room has marble chimney piece with corbelled shelf, cast-iron grate and tiled reveals; canted bay window with panelling below 4-pane sash.

 

1829 Music and Musical Instrument Makers Knapton Samuel & Philip 

Professors & Teachers Hardman William, (music) 

1840 Miscellany of trades Hardman Wm. (late Knapton),

1851 Music Seller Hardman Wm.
Elizabeth Morris
 

1872 drapers and silk mercers 

1885 Chapman John C. bookseller, printer, bookbinder and stationer 

1886 Chapman John C. bookseller, printer, bookbinder and stationer 

1889 Chapman, J. C. printer, bookseller, stationer, etc. (see advt) 

1893 Chapman John Cooper, bookseller, stationer &c 

1895 Chapman John Cooper, bookseller & stationer 

1898 Chapman, J C., printer, bookseller, stationer, &c., see advt. 

1900 Chapman & Wilson, booksellers, stationers, bookbinders, printers, window decorators, typewriter dealers, law stationers, carvers and gilders; Religious Tract Society’s depot, see advt. 

Wilson, John C. (Chapman & W.) 

1900 Wilson, John C. (Chapman & W.) 

1902 Chapman & Wilson, booksellers, stationers, bookbinders, printers, window decorators, typewriter dealers, law stationers, carvers and gilders; Religious Tract Society’s depot, see advt. 

Wilson, John C. (Chapman & W.) 

1905 Chapman & Wilson, booksellers, stationers &c 

Religious Tract Society’s Depot (Chapman & Wilson) 

1913 Chapman & Wilson, booksellers, stationers &c 

Religious Tract & Bible & Society’s Depot (Chapman & Wilson) 

1920 Wilson, Maria Jane Lamb 

Wilson, John Charles 

1921 Chapman & Wilson, booksellers, stationers &c 

1929 Chapman & Wilson, statnrs. &c 

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