31 AND 31A, HIGH PETERGATE (See details for further address information)

This building comprises offices and a flat, with a complex history spanning from the 16th century to the 20th century. A core 16th-century range sits alongside a later 15th-century structure, with an early 17th-century rear block brought together in the 19th century. A mid-19th century shopfront and a 20th-century extension, accessed from Stonegate, have also been incorporated.

The front of the building is two storeys and two bays, with the first floor jutting out over the ground floor. The shopfront is framed by sunk-panelled pilasters supporting a dentilled cornice featuring consoles topped with urns. A central glazed and panelled door is flanked by shallow, three-light elliptical bow windows above recessed panelled risers. Smaller plate glass windows now occupy the spaces where doors once stood on either side. The first-floor windows are a canted bay to the left and two double-glazed windows to the right. The rear block is two storeys and an attic, with one bay. The first floor has paired sash windows – one with 12 panes and one with 16 – while the second floor has a small fixed window.

Inside the front and middle ranges, a quarter-turn staircase features a close string, slender turned balusters, square newels with attached half-balusters, and a moulded ramped-up handrail. A three-panel door on H-L hinges leads to the cellar stairs. Rooms to the right retain small cast-iron corner fireplaces and chamfered brick fireplaces. The front left room has a 19th-century marble fireplace, and the front right room has square dado panelling and a half-glazed door to an alcove cupboard. The rear left room has a moulded dado rail and a six-panel door on L-hinges. Surviving elements include two three-fielded panel doors and a mutilated crown post truss visible in an end gable wall.

The interior of the rear block features an early 19th-century fireplace on the first floor and a second-floor room lined with 17th-century run-through panelling.