Listed Building: 77-79 Micklegate (464021)

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Grade II
LBSUID 464021
Date assigned 14 June 1954
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/663 (South side) 14/06/54 Nos.77 AND 79 GV II House. c1790, with mid C19 alteration and C20 shopfront. Front of stucco incised to resemble ashlar; rear of orange-red brick in stretcher bond; timber modillion cornice to hipped slate roof with scrolled corner brackets and brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 bays on both fronts of corner site. Shopfront on Micklegate, retaining earlier cornice, returns along Trinity Lane, with canted corner door, approached by shaped stone step. At left end of Micklegate front, upstairs door of 6 fielded panels beneath overlight, approached by stone steps, recessed in doorcase of narrow pilasters with triglyph frieze and moulded cornice hood on fluted console brackets. Upper floors of both fronts have blind openings in centre, flanked by 4-pane sashes, all beneath incised wedge lintels. Sill bands to both floors and raised second floor band return on Trinity Lane front. INTERIOR: ground floor: moulded cornice to entrance hall; round arch to staircase hall, on pilaster responds with fluted keyblock and imposts. Open string staircase with shaped treadends, slender turned balusters and ramped-up moulded handrail rises from ground floor to attic. Original fireplaces with cast-iron grates survive throughout. In attic, one plank and muntin partition wall survives. No.79 listed on 01/07/68. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 81). Listing NGR: SE5990451598

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Grid reference SE 59904 51597 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE

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Apr 5 2017 12:58PM

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