8. 10 AND 10A, GALGATE

No. 8, 10, and 10A Galgate is a house that has been converted into two shops and a flat. It dates from the late 18th century and has some alterations from the 19th century, including the raising of the third bay. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and it features roofs made of synthetic slates and Welsh slate, with stone gable copings and a brick chimney.

The exterior is two and three storeys high and has a three-window range. There is a painted tooled stone surround to a low boarded yard-passage door located to the right of the second bay. A flush door with a plain overlight for No. 8 is situated to the left under a flat stone lintel. To the right of this door is a plain sash window. The shop front in the first two bays projects and includes a central recessed glazed door, with slender Tuscan pilasters at the corners. Above the fascia and door head is a trade sign featuring a pair of large spectacles, along with a shallow hood. The shop front in the third bay has slender mullions and a high plain fascia, with a glazed door on the left.

On the first floor, there is a small 4-pane sash window to the left, which has a sill and lintel similar to the sash below. There is also a canted bay oriel window with a 4-pane sash, slender pilasters, and a roll moulded cornice above the central shop front. The three-storey building has No. 10A on the upper floors, featuring a first-floor oriel bow window that was renewed in the late 20th century with flat glazed units, and a 2-light window above with a mullion and transom, flat stone lintel, and projecting stone sill. The roof has stone coping on the left gable that rests on a moulded kneeler. The end ridge chimneys are stone on the left, raised in brick, and tall and rendered on the right, both on the ridge and in the middle of the front slope. The interior of the passage shows a 20th-century door to No. 10A, but the interior has not been inspected.