Crafting The Past
32/44-46 Coney Street the black swan
32/44-46 Coney Street the black swan
32/44-46 Coney Street the black swan

32/44-46 Coney Street, The Black Swan

YORK SE6051NW CONEY STREET 1112-1/28/266 (North East side) No.46 The Yorkshire Bank
GV II

Bank. 1922-23. By Chorley Gribbon and Elcock. For The Yorkshire Penny Bank. Pre-cast concrete and orange brick in English bond; ground floor of rusticated concrete; bold dentil and mutule eaves cornice of timber; dentilled brick stacks to slate mansard roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 6-window front arranged 1:3:1:1, first and fifth bays breaking forward slightly. Projecting bays contain pilastered doorcases with dentilled cornices broken by triple keyblocks; double doors are of raised panels and recessed beneath massive mutuled pediment hoods broken by triple keyblocks, with plain fanlights above pediments. In right end bay, subsidiary doorway has heavily rusticated keyed lintel beneath panel enclosing bayleaf wreath and replacement door.




Tall replacement windows between bank doors, over massive inset blocks housing bank machinery. Moulded ground floor cornice forms sill band to first floor windows. On first and second floors, projecting bays are of concrete and rise into low parapets above eaves cornice.
All upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes: those on first floor in projecting bays have lugged and triple-keyed architraves with cornices, those on second floor keyed architraves with sills linked by aprons to those below. In centre and right end bays, second floor windows have sill band incorporating an apron beneath. All windows except those in centre of second floor have flat arches of gauged brick with concrete triple keyblock: those in centre bays have shaped keyblocks rising into eaves cornice. Attic windows are dormers with 16-pane sashes beneath shallow bracketed pediment gables. Original rainwater goods survive in inner angles of projecting bays. INTERIOR: not inspected. This good quality facade forms an important element in this historic street. (Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York: Edinburgh: 1980-: 179; ).

Listing NGR: SE6025851794



1840 Barber James, Esq. coach proprietor, &c. 32 Coney st; h Tang Hall 

Hotels, Inns, & Taverns, Black Swan Hotel, Samuel Judd,

1851 Black Swan,  

1861 Black Swan,

1876 Wightman Joseph, dealer in iron bedsteads & ironmonger  

1885 Anderson C. confectioner and pastry cook, “Cafe” Restaurant 

Burtchby John, Black Swan Hotel  

1886 Anderson C. confectioner and pastry cook, ” Cafe” restaurant 

Burtchby John, Black Swan Hotel 

1889 Andersen, Charley, The Coney Street Cafe

Black Swan Hotel – Mrs. Burtchby 

1893 Coney Street Cafe Charley Anderson 

Black Swan hotel, Mrs. Rebecca Burtchb 

1895 Anderson Charley, dining & refreshment rooms 

Burtchby Mrs. Rebecca, vict 

1898 Vacant

Black Swan-Mrs. Burtchby 

1900 Yorkshire Penny Bank-J.Henry Smales. manager 

John Arthur Nicholson &  Charles Oswald Brown, Bernard Brown solicitors, commissioners for oaths and perpetual commissioners 

Black Swan-Mrs. Burtchby 

1902 Cook Yorkshire Penny Bank-J.Henry Smales 

Nicholson & Brown, solicitors, commissioners for oaths and perpetual commissioners 
Black Swan – Mrs. Burtchby 

YORK CHESS CLUB – O. C. Brown, hon. sec. 

1905 Yorkshire Penny Bank (branch) (James Smales, manager) 

   BANK CHAMBERS: 

Nicholson & Brown, solrs 

Williamson S. & Co. insurance brokers 

Williamson’s Advertising Agency 

Black Swan hotel 

1913 Yorkshire Penny Bank Limited(branch) (Harold Topliss, manager) 

   BANK CHAMBERS: 

Williamson S. & Co, insurance brokers 

Williamsons‘ Advertising Agency 

Empire Typewriter Co. Ltd 

De Burgh Bros. estate agts 

DeBurgh Walter Reginald, architect & surveyor 

Denny Manufacturing Co. elastic hosiery makers

Black Swan hotel, Richard P. Wilson 

1921 Kellys 

Yorkshire Penny Bank Limited (branch) (Harold Topliss, manager) 

   BANK CHAMBERS : 

Williamson S. & Co. insurance brokers 

Williamsons‘ Advertising Agency 

De Burgh Harold, estate agt 

DeBurgh Walter Reginald, architect & surveyor 

Denny Manufacturing Co. elastic hosiery makers 

   Black Swan hotel, Northern Motor Utilities Limited, proprietors 

1929  Yorkshire Penny Bank Ltd. (branch) (Hugh Sykes, mngr) 

   BANK CHAMBERS: 

Goulton & Leonard, stock brokers
Anelay William Ltd. bldrs  Penty & Thompson, archtcts 

Moore Jsph. Hy. A.C.A. accntnt 

Black Swan Hotel (York) Ltd. (S. C. Punchard, manager) 


Taken from St Martin’s Church Records
62. Premises on part of the site of the Black Swan Hotel
1. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Ellen Porter of a messuage in Coney St for 21 years. 2 October 1608

2. Lease from the feoffees to Matthew Batchelor of the above premises for 21 years. 2 January 1627

3. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Matthew Batchelor of the above premises for 21 years. 28 July 1636

4. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Matthew Batchelor of the above premises for 21 years and a bond for the performance of the covenants in the deed 23 May 1648

5 Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Matthew Bashler of the above premises for 21 years.
26 April 1670

6. Lease and counterpart from the feoffees to Matthew Bashler of the above premises for 21 years 21 July 1691

7. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Robert Smith of the above premises, such part of the yard as is demised to Christopher Boyes only excepted, for 21 years. 14 December 1714

8. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Christopher Boyes of a garth with a building on it, for 21 years. (This garth was part of a yard adjoining the above premises and formerly leased with it) 14 December 1714

9. Counterpart of lease from the feoffees to Charles Hutton of the above messuage in Coney St for 99 years. Charles Hutton also undertakes to rebuild the property at his own
expense. 28 February 1727

10. Lease and release and counterpart of release, from the feoffees to Thomas Grimston and Henry Barnard of the above messuage and garth, for securing £110, being a legacy from
Mrs Anne Savile for the relief of the poor of the parish. 11 and 12 December 1729

11. Report by Mr Hornsey to the feoffees concerning the dilapidations at the Black Swan Hotel. 14 September 1876

12. Itemised bill from Mr Badger, solicitor, to the feoffees concerning the lease of the Black Swan Hotel to Mrs Hickman, and a letter from the Charity Commission concerning the payment of the sum. November 1906

13. Traced plan of the stable yard and adjoining rooms of the Black Swan Hotel, adjacent to the parish property
[?l9th cent.]

63. Abstract of the title of the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor to two messuages from the parish feoffment
estate, one on the site of 7 Coney St and one on part of the
site of the Black Swan Hotel.
1836