York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/645 (North side) 18/02/91 No.40 GV II Shop and flats. c1840, with later C19 and C20 alteration and extension. Pink mottled brick in Flemish bond at front; pink and red mottled brick in English garden-wall bond at rear; painted stone and timber dressings. Moulded eaves cornice on heavy grooved brackets to slate roof; left end brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 2-window front. Pilastered shopfront with dentil cornice on paired scrolled brackets, complete with blind boxes and fittings. First floor windows are 4-pane sashes; those on second floor altered to C20 2-light casements with coloured glass upper lights; attic windows squat 6-pane sashes. First and second floor windows have flat arches. Moulded cornice above shopfront forms sill band to first floor windows; second floor windows have painted stone sills; moulded band beneath attic windows. INTERIOR: open-string cantilevered staircase around oval well, with timber stairs, slender cast-iron stick balusters and moulded swept-up mahogany handrail; moulded dado rail. In rear room, late C19 fireplace and grate, with moulded cornice shelf on shaped brackets. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 127). Listing NGR: SE5998251655