Number 26 Row Number 26 Street

Number 26 Street and Number 26 Row is a town house and undercroft, dating to the mid-13th century with significant alterations around 1710, and subsequently modified. It now serves as a shop and offices. The building shares a mid-13th century sandstone party wall with Number 28 Street and Row.

The exterior is constructed of sandstone and brick, with a grey slate roof. The front features three segmental-arched openings, set within a painted rusticated stone wall. These contain a modern entrance door in the centre and simple shop windows on either side. A flight of ten steps leads up to the Row, on the west side. The Row has rendered end piers and two intermediate columns of Tuscan design, with cast-iron railings featuring round-headed arches and decorative roundels. A door consisting of six fielded panels is set within a pilaster doorcase, flanked by a fixed window of three panes. A rendered bressumer sits above the Row entrance. Banded brick quoins define the third and fourth storeys. A central, canted oriel window on the third storey has leaded glazing; flanked by 12-pane flush sash windows set within a raised brick panel, each with a painted stone sill and a gauged brick flat arch. The fourth storey has three replacement six-pane flush sashes, also with painted stone sills above dropped brick panels and gauged-brick flat arched heads. A stone-capped parapet sits atop a moulded cornice. The rear elevation shows a doorway with a cambered brick head and two 12-pane sashes on the first storey, and three four-pane sashes on the top storey, with one inserted.

The undercroft, likely altered at the front, has two probably early 18th-century barrel vaults to the rear. The structure is partially concealed behind removable cladding. The undercroft's total width is 7.6 metres. Above the Row level, the building follows a double-pile plan, with two main rooms at the front and two at the rear; there was no original shop front. A section of the 13th-century stone party wall to the Booth Mansion is visible. The rear room’s inglenook features an oak bressumer, while the front room has oak panelling with a row of panels below the dado and another above, along with oak cornices. The early 18th-century open-well staircase has slender barleysugar balusters on vase-shaped plinths, a swept oak rail, and a spiral curtail. A later 18th-century softwood staircase leads to the fourth storey. On the third storey, a plastered timber beam, thought to be from the late 17th century, is present, along with a 18th-century cornice and panelled embrasures. Six-panel doors, four-panel doors (some with original brass hinges and furniture), and simple 18th-century large-panelled window embrasures are also present, along with a double doorway cut through to the Booth Mansion, revealing a stringcourse within the party wall. The fourth storey features a one-panel door, later four-panel doors, and simple 18th-century window embrasures.