Description

YORK

SE5951NE MICKLEGATE
1112-1/15/647 (South side)
24/06/83 Nos.45, 47 AND 49
Walker's Bar (Nos.47 & 49) and yard
wall attached to No.1 St Martin's
Lane

GV II

Includes: No.1 St Martin's House ST MARTIN'S LANE.
Shops, offices and public house. Mid C19. Greyish cream brick
in Flemish bond, part with bracketed moulded cornice; ashlar
dressings; slate roof with brick stacks; three gabled dormers
with round-headed lights, one C20 replacement to public house.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, with cellars and attics; 4-bay front to
Micklegate, 3-bay front to St Martin's Lane, and curved corner
bay.
Micklegate front: paired cellar windows beneath heavy
continuous lintel. Doors to Nos 45 and 47, approached by
steps, recessed to right of paired sash windows. Openings are
round-arched with keyblocks and moulded impost bands, on
centre shafts with crocket capitals. Public house windows have
4-centred arches with triple keyblocks and centre shaft with
crocket capital. Triple keyed segmental carriage arch at right
end closed by ramped-up three-leaf folding door with trellised
inserts. On first floor, windows are of paired trefoil-headed
sashes recessed beneath 2-centred arches, with blind
quatrefoils in tympana, on jamb shafts with crocket capitals.
Triple keyblocks to arches. Moulded window sills on brackets
carry low parapets pierced by roundels. Square-headed windows
on second floor are paired with chamfered lintels, continued
to form impost band to semicircular relieving arches. Band of
cogged brick beneath ashlar sills. All windows are 1-pane
sashes.
St Martin's Lane front: round-arched centre doorway beneath
corbelled round-arched hoodmould: steps up to panelled door
with fanlight. Other details repeat those of Micklegate front,
except that centre windows are not paired, and the first floor
window has a stilted arch with trefoil in the tympanum. Same
applies to corner bay, where windows are narrowed, and first
floor one has trefoil in tympanum.
INTERIOR: of No.1 St Martin's Lane: open string staircase to
attics with slender turned balusters and moulded, serpentine
handrail, wreathed on balusters at foot; shaped treadends.
Well has moulded cornice.

Listing NGR: SE5997151629

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548698

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