The Falcon Inn (Number 94)

This is a house and public house, dating to circa 1842, with later alterations. It is located on Micklegate in York. The building is constructed of painted brick, with a painted stone plinth to number 94, and has a timber cornice with minimal modillions supporting a slate roof. There are two brick stacks. The front facade is three storeys and attics in height, with a three-window arrangement. Number 94 has a six-panel door with a divided overlight, set within a plain doorcase featuring an eared architrave and a moulded cornice with scroll console supports. To the right of the door is a wide three-light window beneath a plain fascia board. A square bay window has been inserted on the first floor, featuring a four-pane centre sash and a moulded cornice, sitting on a painted stone sill band. Number 96 has a shopfront with a cornice resting on carved brackets, a replacement plate glass window, and a glazed door. The first floor has two twelve-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, a painted stone sill band, and a recessed panel beneath. The second floor also has twelve-pane sashes with painted stone sills, and the attic windows are unequal nine-pane sashes. The first and second floor windows, except the bay window, have cambered heads and flat arches, the second-floor arches being partially obscured by a prominent cornice on grooved brackets. A gilded carving of a falcon is positioned to the right of the bay window, believed to be a remnant from a previous inn of the same name on the site. The interior of number 94 is said to retain a traditional dram shop arrangement with a through passage and servery. A winder staircase is visible through the shop window of number 96, characterised by open strings, shaped treadends, slender turned balusters, and a moulded handrail that whorls around a turned newel at the foot.