61, Micklegate

This is a town house, built around 1786, with alterations and an extension made in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond, with a painted stone plinth. The dressings are of orange-red gauged brick and painted stone, with timber doorcases and a moulded cornice, and brick stacks rise from a hipped slate roof. The building follows a town house plan.

The exterior has a basement and three storeys, with a three-window front. A shuttered basement opening is visible in the plinth. A panelled pilaster doorcase, featuring a frieze and bracketed cornice, provides access to a six-panel door, which sits beneath a plain fanlight recessed in a panelled reveal. A rear access door with six sunk panels and an overlight is located at the right end. The windows are primarily one-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick, except for a twelve-pane sash at the right end of the first floor, and a blind nine-pane sash in the centre of the second floor. Ground and first floor windows feature sill bands, while second floor windows have painted stone sills. A raised first floor band is also present.

The basement contains brick vaulted cellars, with a kitchen range in the back room. On the ground floor, a moulded and keyed round arch, situated on panelled pilasters with moulded imposts and bases, originally led to a stairhall, but is now blocked by a later architrave and six-panel door. A main, cantilevered staircase is arranged around a circular well, with shaped stone treads and cast-iron hollow-sided stick balusters with a swept handrail. A second cantilevered staircase with stone treads and a cast-iron handrail rises to the attic around an oval well. One front room retains a fireplace enriched with applied composition wheat ears and rinceaux, along with a moulded, fluted mantelshelf. Behind this, a semicircular niche is located beneath a keyed moulded round arch, supported by fluted pilasters with moulded imposts. A six-panel door on the first-floor landing sits beneath a round arch of moulded voussoirs on plain, shallow pilasters, with imposts extended as a moulded band. The first floor front room contains a 19th-century fireplace with a mantelshelf supported by carved consoles, flanked by round-arched alcoves with mutilated architraves. The second floor includes a moulded cornice to the stairwell roof light, and a plain moulded fireplace with a hob grate is found in the rear left room.

The house was the residence of Dr WA Evelyn, a noted physician and antiquary, from 1894.