78-84, MICKLEGATE

78-84 Micklegate is a terrace of three houses, now used as shops and offices, built around 1822. The buildings were designed by Peter Atkinson junior and feature pink and cream mottled brick in Flemish bond at the front and English garden-wall bond at the rear, with red brick dressings. They have a timber eaves cornice at the front and a slate roof with three brick stacks rising through both the front and rear roof pitches.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with a six-window front. The shopfront for No. 78 includes a renewed plain pilaster doorcase leading to No. 80, which has a six-panel door and fanlight. To the left, plate glass shop windows flank a three-quarter glazed door. The shopfronts for Nos. 82 and 84 are separate and feature original doorcases with slender fluted columns, round-arched fluted architraves, plain friezes, and moulded cornice hoods. The doors, accessed by moulded stone steps, have six raised and fielded panels beneath fanlights, with No. 82 having a plain fanlight and No. 84 a radial fanlight.

The upper floors have sash windows, with 15 panes on the first floor and 12 panes on the second floor, all featuring painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. The attic windows are flat-topped dormers, with sliding sashes for Nos. 80 and 82 and casements for No. 84. The rear of the building has two tall round-headed radial glazed staircase sash windows, with a third window altered. Other windows at the rear are 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills, all having brick arches.

Inside, Nos. 82 and 84 each feature an open string staircase that runs from the ground to the third floor, with stick balusters, shaped tread ends, and a moulded handrail that is wreathed at the foot around a turned newel on a shaped curtail step. The round stair hall arch is supported by sunk panelled pilasters with moulded imposts. The doorcases are reeded with angle blocks, and the ceiling cornices are also reeded. Nos. 78 and 80 were not available for inspection but are believed to retain similar features.