138 AND 142, MICKLEGATE

YORK

SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/686 (North side) 19/08/71 Nos.138 AND 142

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.138 AND 140 MICKLEGATE. House. Early C17, altered c1700; remodelled and refronted, with shopfronts, in mid C19. Timber-framed, now fronted in stuccoed brick, with timber frieze band; rear of orange-red brick in random bond. Slate roof with brick stacks, one set diagonally. L-shaped on plan. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 4-window front. Shopfronts have panelled pilasters and plain entablatures between grooved and corbelled brackets capped with rounded gablets. No.138 has glazed door between half-canted windows with transoms; No.140 a 4-panel door to right of 2-light shop window with moulded mullion. First floor windows are 4-pane sashes over stuccoed sill band. Rear: 2 storeys, with gabled wing to left. Rear of front range has glazed and panelled door on ground floor, 12-pane sash on first floor, both in original openings with cambered brick arches: to right on both floors, inserted C20 openings. Ground floor of wing has 4-panel door to left of enlarged window with 18-pane sash; on first floor, two 12-pane sashes with cambered brick arches. 2-course raised brick band to first floor, returned on wing. INTERIOR: inspection not possible. RCHM record timber-framing in the rear wing and fireplace with bolection moulded surround: close string staircase with turned bulbous balusters, square newels with attached half balusters, and moulded handrail. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 95).

Listing NGR: SE5977451517