74 And 76, Micklegate

YORK

SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/662 (North side) 19/08/71 Nos.74 AND 76

GV II

House, now shops and flats. Mid C18; subdivided, altered and extended, and No.74 raised, in early C19; No.76 raised, with further alterations and extensions in late C19 and C20; C20 shopfronts. MATERIALS: front of brown mottled brick in Flemish bond, with orange-red brick dressings; timber console cornice to slate roof, with central brick stack. Rear of No.74 in orange-red brick in irregular bond to second floor level, mottled brick above; No.76 extended in dark brick in English garden-wall bond. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front, with two windows to No.74 and one to No.76. Paired shopfronts of sunk panelled pilasters, deep fascia, with blind boxes, beneath moulded cornice on grooved consoles, and three-quarter glazed doors and plate glass windows. No.74 has 1-pane sash windows on first and second floors, with painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick, that on second floor renewed. No.76 has 4-light casement windows with painted stone sills and renewed cambered arches of gauged brick. Raised band at second floor level. Rear: paired 3-storey 1-window gabled wings; No.74 has 16-pane sashes, No.76 4-pane sashes. INTERIOR: No.74 has close string staircase from ground to second floor, with stick balusters, shaped treadends and swept-up moulded handrail. Room to rear has reeded cornice. On first floor, doorcases are reeded with angle paterae, and room at front has reeded cornice. No.76 has late C19 close string staircase from ground floor to attic, with turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. First floor front room has marble fireplace with plain pilaster jambs, mantelshelf on consoles and late C19 tiles. Moulded cornice. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 81).

Listing NGR: SE5988951647