York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5951SE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/20/684 (South West side) 24/06/83 No.129 The Bar Hotel GV II House, now public house. 1861, converted 1865. Pink and cream mottled brick, front in Flemish bond, ground floor painted; plinth and sill bands of painted stone; timber modillion eaves cornice, returned at each end; slate roof with brick stacks and 3-light window in flat dormer. Central entrance plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars and attic; 3-window front. Barred cellar windows in plinth flank entrance steps. Panelled double doors and tall overlight recessed in pilastered doorcase with segmental pediment. Windows are 4-pane sashes, those flanking entrance set in tall rectangular niches. Windows on ground floor have sills, on first and second floors raised sill bands; all have flat arches of brick. Rear: windows are 12-pane sashes. Left return: tall elliptical-arched doorway altered to C20 window. Right return: first floor entrance, reached by steps in adjacent City walls (qqv), has C20 glazed door and screen beneath original flat arch. Round-arched radial-glazed sash window above, and paired 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and flat arches to attic. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Dissertation for MA in Architectural Building Conservation: Davison Andrew P: "A Good House, fit for the purpose: Public House Design in York": De Montfort University: 1993-: 41). Listing NGR: SE5977351467