No.50 (Former Subscription News Room)

No. 50, formerly the subscription news rooms, is located on Saddler Street and includes No. 1 Owengate. This building dates from 1820 and is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a felt-covered roof and a brick chimney. It has a basement, two storeys, and four bays, with a curved corner leading to Owengate. The Owengate corner and one bay do not have a basement.

The long front facing Saddler Street features a channelled rusticated basement, which continues as a high plinth on the left return. The corner bay has two round steps and three internal steps leading up to a six-panelled door with an overlight set in a Tuscan doorcase, with "SUBSCRIPTION NEWS ROOM" painted above the overlight. To the right, there is a segmental-headed yard entrance with a plain stone surround. In the third bay, a small early 19th-century shop has a half-glazed door on the right and two narrow windows on the left beneath a small cornice. The building has sash windows with glazing bars in the two left basement bays and on the upper floors. There is a ground floor sill band, and the first floor windows have recessed apron panels along with a first floor band. The wide coved eaves gutter cornices add to the architectural detail, and the roof is rounded over the corner with a ridge chimney.

The left return features three rounded steps leading to a part-glazed six-panelled door in a Tuscan doorcase. Cast iron area railings with pine-cone and acanthus-leaf finials on the gate-posts are present on the Owengate front and in the first bay of the main front, curving to form handrails along the sides of the corner steps. The renewed gate has spiked dog-bars.