Number 9 Street Numbers 11 And 11A Row Gods Providence House

This is an undercroft and town house, now partly an undercroft shop and a Row shop, located on Watergate Street and Row. The building dates from the late 13th century, with significant rebuilding in 1862 by James Harrison, and alterations made in 1652. It is constructed from sandstone and timber framing with plaster panels, and has a slate roof with a gable facing the street.

The exterior is four storeys high, including street and Row levels. The street frontage has an altered shopfront with concrete steps leading to the Row. The Row shop has an early 20th-century shopfront, supported by arch-braced posts with a Jacobean-style rail and iron dogbars. A fascia inscription reads "God's Providence is mine Inheritance," commemorating deliverance from the plague of 1647-8. The upper two storeys feature small timber framing with elaborately moulded recessed plaster panels. There is a row of quatrefoil braces across the gable foot, along with ornate bargeboards and a finial. A four-light casement window is centrally placed on the third storey, and a cross-window on the fourth. There is no visible chimney. The street facade is reminiscent of the 1652 appearance but is more decorative and likely taller. The rear elevation is not visible.

The interior includes a late 13th-century sandstone west party wall to the undercroft, later extended towards the street. A rubble sandstone east wall features two beam corbels. C17 beams are also present. A brick extension to the rear is probably from the 18th or 19th century, although the ceiling structure is hidden. The Row-level shop has a painted stop-chamfered beam, a simple frieze, a picture rail, and a cornice. The third storey, now a single room, features console brackets at the head of the stairs, a cornice with fruit motifs, two plastered chamfered beams (one replaced in steel), and a wheel-shaped moulded plaster rose decorated with flowers and fruit at the centre of each of the four ceiling panels. The attic storey has three plain collar trusses, ceiled above collars.