York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW MICKLEGATE 1112-1/28/639 (South side) 19/08/71 Nos.19 AND 21 (Formerly Listed as: MICKLEGATE No.21) GV II House. Late C15 front range, part demolished in 1966; rear wing added c1600; front roof altered and jetties cut back in early C18; late C19 remodelling and shopfront. MATERIALS: both parts timber-framed, originally with wall tile infill, encased partly in brick later; front of stuccoed brick with painted dressings and raised vermiculated quoins; rendered rear range; pantile roofs. 2-bay front range, parallel to street, with 4-bay rear extension. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Shopfront framed in panelled pilasters with Tudor flower roundels, and dentilled cornice between gableted frieze blocks enriched with foliar motifs, over coved and fluted brackets carved in high relief with acanthus leaves. Upstairs entrance door of 4 sunk panels with shaped overlight to right of C20 shop window and door. On first floor, central 3-light canted bay window with dentilled cornice: flanking windows and those on second floor are 1-pane sashes in shouldered architraves with moulded sills on shaped brackets. Eaves frieze band enriched with Tudor flower roundels. INTERIOR: timber-frame survives intact in both parts of building, except at front, and includes framed winder stair in rear wing: studded cross walls and partitions on both floors of both ranges, and massive chimney stack visible on first and second floors. Front range has roughly chamfered original floor joists. Rear range: wide fireplace and side oven beneath segmental timber lintel on ground floor. On first floor, fireplace with set-pot stone; at rear, reset C17 panelling. Front range roof has three crown post trusses with clasped purlins, purlin braces and longitudinal braces. Rear wing roof has four collar trusses on jowled posts with sole pieces, side purlins and longitudinal braces. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 72-73). Listing NGR: SE6007551614