138 AND 142, MICKLEGATE

138 and 142 Micklegate is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made around 1700 and a remodelled front with shopfronts in the mid-19th century. The building is timber-framed, now covered in stuccoed brick, with a timber frieze band. The rear is constructed of orange-red brick in random bond, topped with a slate roof and brick stacks, one set diagonally.

The exterior features a two-storey front with four windows. The shopfronts have panelled pilasters and plain entablatures between grooved and corbelled brackets capped with rounded gablets. Number 138 has a glazed door situated between half-canted windows with transoms, while number 140 has a four-panel door to the right of a two-light shop window with a moulded mullion. The first-floor windows are four-pane sashes above a stuccoed sill band.

At the rear, the building is also two storeys high, with a gabled wing to the left. The rear of the front range includes a glazed and panelled door on the ground floor and a 12-pane sash window on the first floor, both in original openings with cambered brick arches. To the right on both floors, there are inserted 20th-century openings. The ground floor of the wing has a four-panel door to the left of an enlarged window featuring an 18-pane sash, while the first floor has two 12-pane sashes with cambered brick arches. A two-course raised brick band runs along the first floor and returns on the wing.

The interior has not been inspected, but records indicate timber-framing in the rear wing, a fireplace with a bolection moulded surround, and a close string staircase with turned bulbous balusters, square newels with attached half balusters, and a moulded handrail.