114, Micklegate

This is a house located at 114 Micklegate, dating from the late 17th century. A third storey was added and a shopfront was fitted in the late 19th century, along with further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The lower storeys are made of orange brick in Flemish bond, while the third storey is constructed of darker orange brick. The rear wing is built of reddish brick in stretcher bond, featuring brick coping and kneelers at the gable end. The left side is finished in mottled brick, and the right side is rendered. The building has a timber eaves band and a bracketed cornice supported by moulded consoles topped with gablets. The roof is slate with brick stacks.

The exterior presents a three-storey facade with four windows. The shopfront has plain pilasters beneath a frieze and a moulded cornice, which is interrupted by moulded consoles capped with gablets. To the right, there is a glazed shop door with an overlight next to a four-light shop window above a panelled riser. The windows on the first and second floors are 8-pane sashes with painted stone sills and flat arches, while those on the second floor have cambered tops. A broad raised band is located at the second floor level. At the rear, there is a gabled wing of two storeys and an attic, which is partly obscured by a later building. The attic window is a 2x9-pane horizontal sliding sash beneath a segmental brick arch. On the right side, part of a painted sign advertising Whitby Olivers' furnishing store is still visible.

The interior has not been inspected, but records indicate a close string staircase with turned balusters and a flat handrail that ramps up to square newels. Between the lower floors, the staircase is illuminated by a two-light window with an original mullion and a high transom. On the first floor, the larger front room features fielded panelling with a dado rail and cornice, and the fireplace has an early 19th-century marble surround. A room at the back retains an 18th-century moulded fireplace surround.

Historically, this house was the birthplace of Joseph Aloysius Hansom in 1803, who was an architect and the inventor of the hansom cab. The property remained in his family until around 1880.