102 AND 104, MICKLEGATE

The buildings at 102 and 104 Micklegate are a house, originally dating to the late 17th century, that was refronted in the mid 18th century and subsequently subdivided in 1812. Later 19th-century alterations and 20th-century shopfronts complete the visible history. The front of the building is of orange mottled brick in Flemish bond, with No. 102 painted; it has a modillion eaves cornice. The roof is slate with brick coped gables to the front range, while the rear wings have tiled roofs.

The 3-storey, 3-window front features a late 20th-century shopfront to No. 102. The shopfront to No. 104 has panelled pilaster jambs, a plain fascia with moulded capping, and consoles topped with segmental gablets. The shop door is glazed and panelled, with an overlight above a fluted transom interrupted by a scrolled pediment. Flanking the door are half-canted plate glass shop windows with three arched lights on colonnettes, moulded capitals and bracketed spandrels. The first floor has two 3-light canted bay windows with a 4-pane centre sash, while the remaining windows are 4-pane sashes with flat arches of rubbed brick; those to No. 102 are painted.

The rear features a 3-storey centre bay flanked by gabled 2-storey wings with attics. A blocked round-headed first-floor window is in the centre bay, and a 12-pane sash is in the gable end of the right wing, set within the blocking of an earlier window, with surviving flat arch and square hoodmould. An attic window is a 3-light casement, also within blocking, beneath a flat arch and pedimented hood. A blocked oeil-de-boeuf sits in the gable end beneath tumbled brick coping. A moulded first-floor string course runs across the rear.

The interior of No. 104 retains significant original features. On the ground floor, an original rear room displays a chamfer-stopped spine beam with two quarter-round moulded beams. An open-string staircase rises to the second floor, with column-on-vase balusters, two to a tread, and a serpentine handrail; some balusters on the second-floor landing are barley-sugar twists. The first floor has doors of 8 fielded panels leading from the landing. The front room has a late 19th-century fireplace. An elliptical arched opening, with plain pilaster jambs, gives access to a smaller front room with full-height fielded panelling, moulded cornice, and a 6-panel door. The original rear room has a surviving chamfer-stopped spine beam, an 8-panel door, and a fielded panelled window reveal. A smaller rear room contains a massive 17th-century cornice. On the second floor, a section of 17th-century panelling exists on the landing. One front room has a plain fireplace with a basket grate, fluted side pieces, and a moulded cornice shelf. Original floor boards are present throughout the building. The interior of No. 102 was not inspected. Earlier records mention a 18th-century staircase with a closed string, square newels, and closely set turned balusters with square knops.