75 AND 77, HAILGATE

75 and 77 Hailgate is a house that has been divided into two residences. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of pale orange-brown brick in Flemish bond, with orange brick dressings and a pantile roof. It has a double-depth plan, originally featuring a two-room layout with a central entrance hall on the west front.

The house stands three storeys tall and has five bays. It features orange brick quoins and an early 20th-century central segmental-headed entrance with a panelled door. To the left (No 75), there is a projecting square bay window on the ground floor, while the right side (No 77) has a similar entrance and bay window that were rebuilt at the same time. There is also an original round-headed passage entrance on the far left with a panelled door.

On the first floor, there is a three-course band, with unsympathetic 20th-century casements in bays 1-3 and original 12-pane sash windows in bays 4 and 5. These windows are set in original flush wooden architraves and orange brick surrounds with sills beneath painted rubbed-brick flat arches featuring projecting keystones. The second floor has a similar three-course band, with unsympathetic 20th-century casements in bays 1-3 and 19th-century 4-pane sashes in bays 4 and 5, all framed in original flush wooden architraves. The building has a stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice and a hipped roof, with rebuilt ridge stacks on the side ranges.

The right return of the building has a pilaster strip at the left angle, along with unsympathetic 20th-century pointing and casements on the ground and first floors, and a dentilled brick eaves cornice.

Inside No 75, there is a good original open-well staircase featuring a ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, column-on-urn balusters with square knops, and carved scrolled cheek-pieces. The ground-floor front left has a pair of round-arched alcoves, each with panelled pilasters, wide archivolts with stepped keys, and a dentilled dado rail. The alcove to the right also includes a pair of lower doors with ogee-headed panels. The stair hall and first-floor front rooms have moulded plaster cornices, and there are six-panel doors in panelled reveals. The interior has not been fully investigated.