Listed Building: ST MARTINS HOUSE AND WALKERS BAR (NUMBERS 47 AND 49) AND YARD WALL ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1 ST MARTINS LANE (463992)

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Grade II
LBSUID 463992
Date assigned 24 June 1983
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/647 (South side) 24/06/83 Nos.45, 47 AND 49 Walker's Bar (Nos.47 & 49) and yard wall attached to No.1 St Martin's Lane GV II Includes: No.1 St Martin's House ST MARTIN'S LANE. Shops, offices and public house. Mid C19. Greyish cream brick in Flemish bond, part with bracketed moulded cornice; ashlar dressings; slate roof with brick stacks; three gabled dormers with round-headed lights, one C20 replacement to public house. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, with cellars and attics; 4-bay front to Micklegate, 3-bay front to St Martin's Lane, and curved corner bay. Micklegate front: paired cellar windows beneath heavy continuous lintel. Doors to Nos 45 and 47, approached by steps, recessed to right of paired sash windows. Openings are round-arched with keyblocks and moulded impost bands, on centre shafts with crocket capitals. Public house windows have 4-centred arches with triple keyblocks and centre shaft with crocket capital. Triple keyed segmental carriage arch at right end closed by ramped-up three-leaf folding door with trellised inserts. On first floor, windows are of paired trefoil-headed sashes recessed beneath 2-centred arches, with blind quatrefoils in tympana, on jamb shafts with crocket capitals. Triple keyblocks to arches. Moulded window sills on brackets carry low parapets pierced by roundels. Square-headed windows on second floor are paired with chamfered lintels, continued to form impost band to semicircular relieving arches. Band of cogged brick beneath ashlar sills. All windows are 1-pane sashes. St Martin's Lane front: round-arched centre doorway beneath corbelled round-arched hoodmould: steps up to panelled door with fanlight. Other details repeat those of Micklegate front, except that centre windows are not paired, and the first floor window has a stilted arch with trefoil in the tympanum. Same applies to corner bay, where windows are narrowed, and first floor one has trefoil in tympanum. INTERIOR: of No.1 St Martin's Lane: open string staircase to attics with slender turned balusters and moulded, serpentine handrail, wreathed on balusters at foot; shaped treadends. Well has moulded cornice. Listing NGR: SE5997151629

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Grid reference SE 59971 51628 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire

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Apr 5 2011 11:40AM

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