38 Mount Street

Now a single house, 38 Mount Street was originally the cross wing of a larger hall house, along with numbers 36-37. The detailing and floor plan, featuring two heated rooms on each level, suggest this wing may have been the principal range, with service areas located in the section now forming numbers 36-37. This represents an uncommon adaptation to land use within an urban setting, departing from the typical arrangement where the long range would have served as the hall. The property was used as a public house, "The Angel," prior to 1881.

The street-facing gable is rendered over timber framing, with exposed timber at the gable apex. It has a slate roof and a brick side wall stack towards the rear. A main brick stack is also present, incorporated into the roof of numbers 36-37. A new doorway has been inserted to the left, alongside a renewed three-light window. A matching two-light window sits above. The gable apex has decorative framing with chevron bracing on either side of central cruciform timbers and queen posts.

The interior is planned with two rooms on each floor, the principal room positioned at the front. The front ground floor room features deep moulded beams, panelling the ceiling with a moulding running over run-out stops on the two axial beams, and counter-changing stop-chamfered joists. The fireplace bressumer has a multi-roll moulding. The rear room, separated by a partially exposed close-studded partition, has a simpler chamfered axial beam. The first floor follows a similar arrangement, with the front room having paired axial beams, deep moulding, and stop-chamfers. Square panelled framing is exposed in a partition, and a three-light wood mullioned window is visible in the east wall. The fireplace bressumer is also multi-roll moulded. The rear room’s axial beams have deep moulding, and this room was subdivided to create a staircase to an attic storey; a square panelled framed partition is present at the head of the stairs, with a chamfered arched head to a former doorway. The cellar retains stop-chamfered axial beams and joists, and may originally have been heated, evidenced by a partially exposed bressumer below the main stack and a fireplace recess in the rear room. Modern interior woodwork, including an oak attic staircase designed by York architect Ron Sims, has been added.

No. 38 is a significant example of an early townhouse based on a common rural plan; this wing retains its original layout largely intact, and features detailing of exceptional quality.