68, Saddler Street

The building at 68 Saddler Street is a late 18th-century house, incorporating an earlier core. It is now used as a shop and offices. The exterior is rendered with incised stucco, set against painted ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is four storeys high and one bay wide. The shop front features an Italian Gothic design, with a passage door and a shop door on the left side. These doors have decorative panelling, blind tracery, and cusped overlights, all set within two-centred arches supported by shafts with clasping bands and stiff-leaf capitals, with nail-head decoration. A similar shaft is present on the right of the shop window, while a central shaft has been removed. The upper floors feature wide sash windows with narrow glazing bars within wide boxes, and projecting stone sills. A steeply-pitched roof tops the building. No chimneys are visible. Inside, a wide dog-leg staircase has a close string, a substantial handrail on turned balusters, and plain rectangular newels; the first flight of stairs has a balustrade that is boarded over.