The Snickleway Inn and attached buildings at rear

The Snickleway Inn and attached buildings at rear, No. 47 Goodramgate, York

This Grade II* listed public house stands on the east side of Goodramgate in York. Originally known as The Anglers' Arms, and recorded as The Board in 1852, it comprises a front range dating to around 1500 with an early 17th-century wing, a mid-19th-century inn front, and a mid-19th-century outbuilding at the rear that itself dates to around 1600.

All parts are timber-framed. The front range has a plastered front elevation, while the rear shows exposed timber-framing with brick infill, some orange and some reused, some rendered. The early 17th-century wing displays exposed timber-framing on its first floor, with the ground floor encased in red brick in stretcher bond. Part of the wing was rebuilt in orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond, painted on the ground floor. Pantile roofs with brick stacks cover the main structures. The outbuilding has been rebuilt variously in orange brick in English garden-wall and stretcher bonds, and red brick in random bond, with tile and pantile roofs and brick stacks.

Externally, the front elevation comprises two bays of a four-bay range (shared with adjoining properties) combined with a three-bay wing and a three-bay outbuilding at the rear. The three-storey front has two bays with jettied first and second floors. The first-floor jetty is encased in a boarded fascia projecting on coved and shaped brackets. The mid-nineteenth-century inn front features a three-leaf folding panelled door to the left of centre and a three-panel door at the right end, both with plain overlights. The left window is plate glass with a divided transom light over a painted brick riser; the right side has a large plate glass window and a smaller one further right, both over moulded panel risers. On the first floor, a pivoting two-pane window is flanked by squat four-pane sashes. The second floor has two 2 x 2-pane Yorkshire sashes, all set in raised architraves with applied diamond lattice leading. The second-floor jetty plate is moulded, and the eaves cornice is moulded and dentilled, supported on shaped brackets. The wing includes one twentieth-century door and one four-panel door, with various windows including a sixteen-pane sash on the ground floor and four-pane and 2 x 3-pane Yorkshire sashes on the first floor. The outbuilding has various doors and two two- and three-light windows to the first floor at the rear.

Internally, the front range retains exposed timber-framing on all floors, with studded cross-walls on the first and second floors and studded partition walls between rooms on the second floor. The entrance screen and ground-floor walls are lined with nineteenth-century board panelling. Part of the first floor has been removed to form a two-storey central bar on the ground floor. A first-floor room to the right is screened with re-used incised-panel shutters. On the second floor, the room to the left has a cast-iron fireplace with a coved frieze decorated with leaf and rosette mouldings. On the third floor, a three-panel door stands at the foot of the newel stair in the rear corner. The rebuilt bay of the rear wing contains a staircase rising from ground to second floor, with a boxed lowest flight and upper flights featuring turned balusters and a plain handrail. The outbuilding has an inserted upper floor.

Alterations were made in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly to the front range, which was modified at that time.