Again the numbering here is different in the Historical Monuments Book, which shows how difficult it is to match up buildings. Number 10 was also listed as part of The George Inn
Current PO addresses have this one as 17 and Waterstones as 15, with 13 on the corner.
The British Listed Buildings website have the same addresses as today
Shop and offices. Early C19; No.15 modernised, and No.17
rebuilt, in C20, re-using early C18 column, early C19 bow window and eaves cornice. No.15 of orange brick in Flemish
bond, with marble faced office front, timber eaves cornice,
and slate hipped roof with brick stack: No.17 of red brick in
stretcher bond with painted stone column.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 2-window front to No.15, 1-window front
to No.17. Shopfront to No.15 has glazed double doors recessed
between plate glass windows, all with semicircular fanlights.
Ground floor of No.17 has flat carriage arch with reset Tuscan
column forming the right jamb, and plate glass shopfront.
First floor windows to No.15 are 3-light shallow canted bays
with 1-pane sashes, fluted friezes and moulded cornices:
re-used window to No.17 is shallow tripartite bay with 16-pane
centre sash between 8-pane sashes, beaded panel frieze and
plain cornice. Windows on second floor of both buildings are
12-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick; on third
floor, unequal 9-pane sashes: all have painted stone sills.
Dentilled modillion eaves cornice, returned at right end of
No.15, continued across No.17 beneath plain parapet, masking
roof. Inverted bell rainwater head at right end of No.15.
INTERIORS: not inspected: RCHM record the following. No.15 has
mid C19 fireplace and moulded cornice in first floor front
room. No.17 has early C19 fireplace and moulded cornice in
first floor front room.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.15 was built as offices for the newspaper
‘The York Courant’, continuing in this use until 1991. Re-used
features in No.17 survive from the George Inn, formerly
occupying the site and demolished 1869.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 126).Listing NGR: SE6018451838
From the An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central
141) Office, No. 15, of four storeys and cellars, was built for the York Courant probably between 1789 and 1809 during the proprietorship of George Peacock. In 1838 it also housed Hargrove’s Library, which was at that time ‘recently opened’ (New Guide, 64).
The front elevation is of brick in Flemish bond and has, over a modern shop front, two shallow canted bay windows with fluted friezes and modern sashes; the windows on the floors above have flush frames and retain original sashes with glazing bars. The timber block cornice returns several feet along the N.W. side wall, and the low-pitched slated roof is hipped to front and rear.
Inside, the ground floor is wholly modernised, and on the first floor all the original partition walls have been removed, though the plan can be partly recognised from surviving mid 19th-century cornices. There are a few original fittings, and on the third floor, where the plan is better preserved, the position of the top-lit former secondary staircase can be identified.
There is a reproduction of Thomas Horsley’s shop in York Castle Museum, as well as the door from The George Inn
1780 1781 & 1784 Jackman James George Inn
1798 george inn winn william;
1810 George Hotel Ann Winn;
1823 George Inn (posting house), Ann Winn,
1829 George & Dragon, Thomas Batty,
1840 George Hotel, Ths Winn,
1851 George Hotel, Ths Winn,
1861 Horsley Thomas, gunmaker
George family Hotel, Miss Sarah Ann Senior
1870 Horsley Thomas, gun maker
1872 Horsley Thomas, gun maker
1876 Horsley Thomas and Son, gun makers
The Ebor (private) club rooms (Horsley’s yard)
1885 Horsley Thos. & Son, gun and pistol manufacturers Conservative Club, W. Warner steward; J. Lane, sec.
1886 Horsley Thos. & Son, gun and pistol manufacturers Conservative Club, W. Warner steward; J. Lane, sec.
1889 Leak & Thorp, general and furnishing drapers, silk mercers, etc. (see adt)
1893 Horsley Thomas & Son, gun makers
IOA, York Conservative Club (John Lane, sec.; John Hy.C. Timmie, steward)
Leak & Thorp, wholesale & retail drapers &c. (Commerce house)
1895 Horsley Thos. & Son, gun makers
10A YORK CONSERVATIVE CLUB, J. H. C. Timme, steward; John Lane, secretary
Leak & Thorp, drapers & milliners
1898 Horsley, T. & Son, gun makers and cycle agents CONSERVATIVE CLUB – T. Hardy, steward
1900 Horsley, T. & Son, gun makers and cycle agents CONSERVATIVE CLUB-W. H. Colton, steward
1902 Horsley, T. & Son, gun makers and agents
Horsley. Thomas (T. H. & Son) CONSERVATIVE CLUB – W. H. Colton, steward
1905 Horsley Thomas & Son, gun makers
10A York Conservative Club ( John Lane, sec.; William Colton, steward )
Leak & Thorp, wholesale & retail drapers &e. (Commerce house)
1913 Horsley Thomas & Son Limited, gun makers
10A, Cuthbert T. E. & Co. refreshment contractors
Leak & Thorp, wholesale retail drapers &c (Commerce House)
1921Black Boy Chocolate Co. Limited
IOA, Cuthbert T. E. & Co. refreshment contractors
Leak & Thorp Ltd. wholesale & retail drapers &c. (Commerce house)
1929 Kelly’s
10 Black Boy Chocolate Co. Limited
Leak & Thorp Ltd. wholesale & retail drapers &c. (Commerce house)