42-48, MICKLEGATE

This is a group of three shops and flats, built in 1747, with a rear wing dating back to approximately 1710. Later alterations occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was likely constructed for Thruscross Topham. The front of the building is built from orange-red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, distinguished by a modillion eaves cornice resting on bulbous, grooved consoles, and a pantile roof with a stone-coped left gable and brick stacks. The rear wing is constructed of red brick in a stretcher bond pattern and has a tiled roof with a brick coped gable.

The front facade presents as a four-story, six-window arrangement. The shops have been updated with late 19th and early 20th century shopfronts. The windows are sash windows with painted stone sills: those on the first floor have 15 panes, on the second floor 12 panes (two are blocked), and on the third floor 6 panes. The first and second floor windows have flat arches constructed of gauged brick.

The rear of the front range is three stories high and partially obscured by later additions; a three-story, two-window wing projects to the left. The windows in the front range have been converted to small-pane sashes, with one featuring an elliptical arch and others flat arches. The ground and first floor windows in the wing are 16-pane sashes with flat arches, while the second floor windows are horizontal sliding sashes, arranged as two panes wide by six panes high. Two top floor windows in the gable end are blocked.

The interior of number 48 was fully inspected and features a close string staircase from the ground to the second floor, notable for its alternately turned and twisted balusters, a flat moulded handrail that ramps up to square newels. The front room on the first floor retains fielded panelling reaching the full height of the room, a bolection moulded fireplace, an overmantel panel, and a sunk-panelled ceiling divided by moulded beams. The front rooms on the second floor contain original plain fireplaces with flat shelves, one of which is dentilled. They also feature six-panel doors and moulded picture rails. A three-panel door leads to the back room, alongside a surviving 19th-century fireplace and grate. In number 42, records indicate an 18th-century door to the rear wing with eight raised and fielded panels in a keyed round-arched architrave, and a close string staircase featuring turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail. Number 44 contains a 19th-century staircase. Numbers 46 and 48 were initially listed on June 24, 1983.