54/2 Coney Street
Taken From the Historic England Website
YORK
SE6051NW CONEY STREET 1112-1/28/248 (North East side) Nos.2 AND 2A
GV II
Shop. c1880. Red brick in English garden wall bond with dressings and shopfront of cream terracotta; slate mansard roof with ornate brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3-storey front; 3-bays to left, 1-bay to right, of curved corner bay. Shopfront of part fluted, part panelled Composite pilasters on pedestals, frieze and moulded cornice, extends round on fronts. End bay in left front contains upstairs access door, part glazed, part panelled, with semicircular fanlight, in continuous round-arched architrave with sunk-panel fasciated keyblock, and leaf mouldings in arch spandrel. Shop entrance through glazed and panelled double doors recessed in corner bay behind round arch on moulded corbelled imposts. Shop windows are plate glass in continuous arches, elliptical on left front, segmental on right front, all with sunk panel keyblocks and spandrels moulded with leaves and roses. Blind box over right window. Upper floor bays articulated by pilaster strips, those on first floor of rusticated panelled blocks and supporting moulded string and shallow cornice; on second floor of alternately plain and reeded blocks. First floor windows are recessed in hollow-chamfered, roll-moulded round arches with moulded keyblocks, over moulded sillstring and sunk panels. On second floor, they have shaped heads and lintels, and moulded sills over sunk panels. Windows are 2-light casements, corner ones convex, those on first floor with semicircular fanlights. Heavy console cornice to eaves, beneath balustraded parapet, interrupted by plain pedestal piers and sunk panel pedestal block over corner bay. Moulded coping to parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected.
1823 Saddlers and Harness Makers Barr William
1829 empty
1840 Henry Chapman Tobbaconist, sharebroker and Animal preserver 54 & 55
1851 Henry Chapman Tobbaconist, sharebroker and Animal preserver 54 & 55
1851 Henry Chapman Tobbaconist, sharebroker and Animal preserver 54 & 55
54 & 55 Booker Daniel, tailor
1861 Chapman Henry, sharebroker
1876 empty
1885 Oakley R. H. chemist
Scawin W. land agent and surveyor
1886 Oakley R. H. chemist
Scawin W. land agent and surveyor
1889 Oakley, R H. chemist
Scawin W. stock and share broker
1893 Oakley Robert Henry, homeopathic chemist
X. L. All Cafe (Mrs. Julia Tippey, manageress)
Smithson & Turner, solctrs
1895 Oakley Robert Henry, chemist
Connell Mrs. A. refreshment rooms
Smithson & Turner, solicitors
1898 Oakley, R. H., chemist Smithson, W. W. (S. & Turner) solicitor and commissioner Turner, Thos. (Smithson & T.) solicitor
Barber, Miss E., refreshment rooms
1900 Oakley, R. H, chemist Smithson & Turner, solicitors Smithson, W. W. (S. & Turner) commissioner for oaths Turner, Thomas (Smithson & T.)
Barber, Miss E., refreshment rooms
1902 Burgin, Mark F.,pharmaceutical chemist Smithson & Turner, solicitors Smithson, W. W. (S. & Turner) commissioner for oaths
Barber, Miss E., refreshment rooms
1905 Burgin Mark Frederick, pharmaceutical chemist
Smithson & Turner, solictrs
1913 Burgin Mark Frederick, pharmaceutical chemist
Brown John solicitor
Swans on Miss J. I. artist
1920 Burgin, Mark Frederick
1921 Burgin Mark Frederick, pharmaceutical chemist
Mawson Wm. Tomlinson, accountant &c
1929 Burgin Mark Frederick, pharmaceutical chemist
Dyer Fredk.P. A.S.I.archtct
Taken from the records of St Martin Coney Street
61. Premises on the site of 54 Coney Street (later 2 Coney St)
1. Two parts of a grant from the feoffees to the churchwardens of an annuity of 20s. a year, payable out of
the parish house on the site of 54 Coney St., for the use of the minister, being a legacy from Mrs Anne Savile for the preaching of a sermon on the anniversary of her death. 21 January 1696
2. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to George Allanson of a messuage in Coney Street for 7 years.
28 November 1720
3. Lease and counterpart from the feoffees to Matthias Roebuck of the above premises for 21 years. Matthias
Roebuck also undertakes to carry out alterations to the property. 11 June 1771
4. Lease from the feoffees to Matthias Roebuck of the above premises for 21 years. 2 February 1787
5. Lease from the feoffees to Mark F. Burgin of the above premises for 10 years. 4 May 1921
6. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Mark F.Burgin of the above premises for 10 years. 15 May 1931
7. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to John Wright of the above premises for 10 years. 22 June 1940
8. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Mark F.Burgin Ltd. of the above premises for 10 years. 30 March 1951