2, Lamberts Arcade

No. 2 Lamberts Arcade is a house and workshop, now used as workshops, likely dating from the late 16th century. It has undergone alterations in the late 18th or early 19th century and again in the early to mid-20th century. The building features a timber frame that is rendered and encased in boarding, with a slate roof and a brick stack on the left side.

The structure has a three-storey gabled bay that faces into the yard at the rear of No. 165 Briggate, but it does not appear to be structurally connected to that building or to the range on its left (east). There is a narrow outshut on the east side, which is likely an early 17th-century addition and includes a slightly later brick stack. The first and second floors are jettied, with the top-floor jetty not extending the full width of the gable. The first and second floors also feature 20th-century tongue-and-groove boarding, and the purlin ends project at the gable.

Inside, there is a substantial vertical post, boxed in, against the first-floor partition wall shared with the Queen's Court south range. The second-floor room is lined in tongue-and-groove boarding. There is some evidence of cased-in posts and bracing. The roof structure includes king post trusses with raked struts connecting the tie-beam to the principal rafters, and straight braces from the king post to the ridge purlin. The trusses do not have infill; instead, closure is achieved with plaster on laths nailed to the outer faces of the timbers.

A late 19th-century sketch indicates that the building was rendered over at that time and featured small-pane sash windows, along with a cellar window to the left of the door. This building is a rare, possibly unique, survival of part of a late 16th-century timber-framed house. The extensive casing of the building both inside and out makes it difficult to determine the extent of the original timber framing. Its location suggests that it was situated behind earlier houses or market booths on the Briggate frontage and likely extended further east.