9/15 Coney street
Again the numbering here is different in the Historical Monuments Book, which shows how difficult it is to match up buildings. We also have a number of deed records which point to this building
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.
Thomas Sunter 1740 Sunters Coffee House down passageway
Mark Robinson
Anne Ward York Courant
George Peacock
Caesar Peacock
1823 Booksellers, Stationers, Binders, &c Sotheran Thomas, Coney street
9 (end of passageway ?) Cobb Henry, printer and publisher of the York Courant, Tuesdays, office, Coney street
1829 Auctioneers and Appraisers Smallpage William Robert, (& commission agent)
China, Glass & Earthenware Dealers Benson Joseph (& glass cutter)
1840 Booksellers, Stationers, Binders & Printers, Hargrove William,
Libraries, Hargrove Wm.
9 (end of passageway ?) Newspapers, York Courant, (Thurs) Thos. Stones
1851 John Glaisby Bookseller & Stationer
9 (end of passageway ?) Newspapers, herald office
1861 Glaisby John, bookseller, & circulating library
York Herald Printing Office
1870 Glaisby John, book and print seller,stationer, and city library Glaisby William, photographer
1872 Glaisby John, book and print seller, stationer, and city library, photographer
1876 Glaisby John, book and print seller, stationer, and city 1ibrary, photographer,
York Daily and Weekly Herald office (printing, editorial, and reporting departments) – W.W. Hargrove, managing director
1885 York Daily and Weekly Herald office, (editorial, reporting and printing departments, Wallace Hargrove, manager
1886 York Daily and Weekly Herald office, (editorial, reporting and printing departments, W. Wallace Hargrove, manager
1889 York Herald Newspaper Co – W. W. Hargrove, managing director (see advt)
9A Horsley, T. and Son, gun makers
Conservative Club
1893 Yorkshire, Daily Herald Yorkshire Weekly Herald (The). See advertisemnt
York Evening Press (The)
1895 Yorkshire Herald Newspaper Co. Lim. (publishing office), William Wallace Hargrove, managing director; James Kay, secretary
Yorkshire Daily Herald (The)
Yorkshire Weekly Herald (The)
York Evening Press (The)
1898 “York Herald Newspaper Co., Ltd. – W. W. Hargrove, managing director
1900 “Yorkshire Herald ” Newspaper Co.Ltd.,
1902 Yorkshire Herald” Newspaper Co.Ltd
1905 Yorkshire Herald Newspaper Co. Lim. ( printing & publishing office )
Yorkshire Daily Herald ( The )
Yorkshire Weekly Herald ( The )
York Evening Press ( The )
1913 Yorkshire Herald Newspaper Co. Lim. (printing & publishing office)
Yorkshire Daily Herald (The)
Yorkshire Weekly Herald (The) Yorkshire Evening Press (The)
1920 Nicholson, Harry Burland, Thos. Wm.., Ebo Hall
1921 Yorkshire Herald Newspaper Co. Lim. (printing & publishing office)
Yorkshire Daily Herald (The)
Yorkshire Weekly Herald (The)
Yorkshire Evening Press (The)
1929 Yorkshire Herald Newspaper Co. Lim. (printing & publishing office)
Yorkshire Herald (The)
Yorkshire Weekly Herald (The)
Yorkshire Evening Press (The)
