St Martins House Walkers Bar (Numbers 47 And 49) And Yard Wall Attached To Number 1 St Martins Lane

This is a mid-19th century building comprising shops, offices, and a public house, situated on Micklegate in York. The construction utilizes greyish cream brick in a Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings, a slate roof, brick stacks, and three gabled dormers, one of which is a 20th-century replacement to the public house.

The building presents a four-bay facade to Micklegate and a three-bay facade to St Martin’s Lane, with a curved corner bay. The Micklegate front features paired cellar windows beneath a substantial continuous lintel. Doors are recessed to the right of the paired sash windows, accessed by steps. The ground-floor openings are round-arched, incorporating keyblocks and moulded impost bands on centre shafts with crocket capitals. Public house windows have 4-centred arches with triple keyblocks and a centred shaft with a crocket capital. A triple keyed segmental carriage arch is closed by a ramped-up three-leaf folding door with trellised inserts. The first-floor windows are paired, trefoil-headed sashes recessed beneath 2-centred arches, with blind quatrefoils in the tympana, set on jamb shafts with crocket capitals. Triple keyblocks are present to the arches, and moulded window sills are carried on brackets to low parapets pierced by roundels. The second-floor windows are paired with chamfered lintels, continued to form a semicircular relieving arch. A band of cogged brick sits beneath the ashlar sills. All windows are single-pane sashes.

The St Martin's Lane front has a round-arched centre doorway beneath a corbelled round-arched hoodmould, leading to a panelled door with fanlight. Details largely repeat those of the Micklegate front, with the exception that the centre windows are not paired and the first-floor window has a stilted arch with a trefoil in the tympanum. The corner bay mirrors this design, with narrowed windows and a first-floor window featuring a trefoil in the tympanum.

Inside Number 1 St Martin's Lane is an open string staircase to the attics, characterized by slender turned balusters and a moulded, serpentine handrail that is wreathed on the balusters at the foot. The well features a moulded cornice.