5 And 5A, High Petergate

This is a house, now a shop and offices, dating from around 1700, with alterations and an extension from the early 19th century and a 20th-century shopfront. The front is of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a timber doorcase and eaves cornice. The rear is of orange-brown brick in a stretcher bond, with pantile and slate roofs. A brick stack is also present.

The front elevation has three storeys and four bays. The doorcase features plain pilasters, moulded imposts, and a fluted band, supporting a door of six fielded panels and a semicircular fanlight, all beneath a moulded cornice on carved scrolled brackets. To the right of the door is a shopfront with a half-glazed door and a three-light bow window. A partly blocked one-pane sash window is on the far left. A tripartite bow window with a curved four-pane sash is to the right of the first floor, and a tall one-pane sash window is to the left, both with painted sills. On the second floor, there are four one-pane sash windows with painted sills. Stepped brick bands indicate the division between the first and second floors. An eagle firemark is situated to the left of the bow window on the first floor. The eaves cornice is moulded and dentilled, broken by a moulded rainwater head inscribed "MT 1763." Original rainwater goods feature rosette clamps.

The rear has a three-storey, twin-gabled front with a projecting staircase block in the centre, flanked by lower later extensions. The fenestration is irregular, including a twelve-pane sash window to the staircase block and a two-by-six-pane Yorkshire sash window on the first floor of the extension to the right.

The interior includes a cantilevered geometric staircase rising from the ground to the first floor. The stairs have shaped treadends, stick balusters, and a serpentine handrail, wreathed at the foot around a turned newel on a shaped curtail step. A deep elliptical arch with a fluted soffit, supported by paired fluted pilasters with imposts, is located at the rear of the stairhall, leading to a similar arch beyond a small, plastered vaulted hall. The hall ceiling is bordered in reeded mouldings. On the first floor, a moulded round arch is situated at the stairhead, and the stairwell ceiling has a wide moulded plaster cornice. Reeded doorcases lead to the main rooms. A winder staircase leads to the second floor, featuring turned balusters, square newels with attached half balusters, and a flat, moulded, ramped-up handrail, complemented by a matching moulded dado rail. The front room is fully lined with fielded panelling, including a moulded dado rail and cornice, with a fireplace and overmantel flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters.