122, 124 AND 126, MICKLEGATE

The building comprises three shops at numbers 122, 124, and 126 Micklegate, York. It dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with significant remodelling in the mid-19th century and more recent alterations to the parapet, likely in the 20th century. The lower storeys are constructed of painted brick, while the second floor is of orange and mottled brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern. The building is topped with a pantile roof and brick stacks.

The front facade is a three-storey, four-window arrangement. The ground floor features paired shops with a continuous dentilled cornice and carved volutes above plain pilasters. A central access door has six raised and fielded panels above a fanlight. Number 122 has a half-canted shop window with three lights arched in a segmental shape and slender colonnettes above a panelled riser. To the right, a half-glazed and panelled shop door has a segment-headed overlight recessed within a panelled reveal. The shop windows and door at numbers 124 and 126 were altered, but traces of earlier shopfronts remain in the form of painted cast-iron columns. The first-floor windows are four-pane sashes with flat arches and painted stone sills for numbers 124 and 126; the second-floor windows consist of a two-light casement to number 122 and two to numbers 124/126. A raised band of painted brick defines the second floor. The rear of number 122 features a projecting two-storey wing with an attic, featuring a gable end with two windows. The first-floor windows are four-pane sashes with cambered arches, with an altered attic window now serving as a glazed door, retaining its original segmental arch.

The interior ground floor of the shop at number 122 retains late 17th-century panelling and a moulded cornice, while the shop at number 124 has bolection moulding and a modillion cornice. The entrance hall features an enriched plaster cornice and a moulded round arch on fluted pilasters with moulded imposts, leading to the stairhall and a moulded geometric plaster ceiling. The staircase from the ground to the second floor has an open string, turned and twisted balusters (three per stair), a moulded ramped-up handrail, and wreathed details at the foot of the newel post. A matching dado paneling lines the stairwell. Sections of the original staircase exist between the second and third floors, characterized by a close string, bulbous balusters, square newels with moulded caps, and a moulded handrail. On the first floor, the landing is lined with raised and fielded dado panelling. The front room of numbers 124 and 126 has raised and fielded panel doors, window-cases, built-in cupboards, a fireplace with pilaster jambs and enriched key and angle blocks, and an enriched dentil cornice. The rear room of number 122 is lined with bolection-moulded panelling below a moulded cornice, with remnants of a fireplace and overmantel remaining. A 17th-century roof is said to be present in number 122.