78-84, MICKLEGATE

YORK

SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/664 (North side) 14/06/54 Nos.78-84 (Even)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.78, 82 AND 84 MICKLEGATE. Terrace of 3 houses, now shops and offices. c1822, with late C19 and C20 shopfronts. By Peter Atkinson jnr. Pink and cream mottled brick in Flemish bond at front and English garden-wall bond at rear, with red brick dressings; timber eaves cornice at front; to slate roof with three brick stacks rising through front and rear roof pitches. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 6-window front. Shopfront to No.78 incorporates renewed plain pilaster doorcase to No.80, with 6-panel door and fanlight; to left, plate shop glass windows flank three-quarter glazed door. Shopfronts to Nos 82 and 84 are separate from original doorcases of slender fluted columns, round-arched fluted architraves, plain friezes and moulded cornice hoods; doors, approached by moulded stone steps, are of six raised and fielded panels beneath fanlights, plain to No.82, radial to No.84. Windows on upper floors are sashes, of 15 panes on first floor, 12 panes on second floor, all with painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Attic windows are flat topped dormers, with sliding sashes to Nos 80 and 82, casements to No.84. Rear: two tall round-headed radial glazed staircase sash windows, third one altered. Other windows are 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills. All windows have arches of brick. INTERIOR: Nos 82 and 84 each has an open string staircase from ground to third floor, with stick balusters, shaped treadends and moulded handrail wreathed at the foot around a turned newel on shaped curtail step. Round stairhall arch on sunk panelled pilasters with moulded imposts. Doorcases are reeded with angle blocks. Ceiling cornices reeded. Nos 78-80 not available for inspection but thought to retain similar features. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 127).

Listing NGR: SE5989451626