29 And 31, Micklegate

YORK

SE6051NW MICKLEGATE 1112-1/28/641 (South side) 13/10/75 Nos.29 AND 31

GV II

Formerly known as: No.31 MICKLEGATE. Hotel and shop, now shop and offices. Late C18, remodelled c1860. Renovated 1991. MATERIALS: orange-red and vitrified brick in Flemish bond at front, with painted stone dressings and moulded dentilled eaves cornice, returned at each end; shopfront of timber; brick end stacks to shallow pitched slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 4-window front. Shopfront of plain pilasters and moulded dentil cornice on grooved bulbous brackets, with glazed shop door between half-canted plate glass windows. Shop door and windows have moulded glazing bars of Art Nouveau form. At left end of shopfront, elliptical carriage arch of voussoirs on plain pilasters with moulded imposts contains panelled double doors beneath blocked fanlight. At right end, upper floor entrance door of 4 sunk panels with blocked fanlight in panelled reveal. First floor windows are tall 4-pane segment-headed sashes in architraves with cornice hoods on consoles. On second floor, windows are cambered arched 4-pane sashes in eared architraves with moulded bracketed sills. Squat 6-pane sashes to attic. First and second floor windows have small wrought-iron balconies in front of them. Raised first floor and attic sill bands. Rear: 4 storeys, 4 bays, with central full height chimney stack. Ground floor largely obscured by later 1-storey extensions; at right end, former segment-arched carriage arch partly blocked by brick screen and C20 board double doors. Windows on first and second floors are 16-pane sashes, with 12-pane sash to right of stack on first floor, and round-headed margin-glazed light on second floor; squat 8-pane sashes on third floor. All windows except round-headed one have flat arches of brick. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 74).

Listing NGR: SE6004851617