Numbers 44 And 46 Street

Undercroft and town house, now shop and offices at undercroft and Row levels with 2 storeys above. The building was largely reconstructed in the early 18th century when the Row was enclosed. It is constructed of brick with a grey slate roof.

The exterior consists of 4 storeys. The rendered front of the former undercroft contains 2 simple 1-pane shop windows to the east of a modern glazed shop door. To the west, a flight of 11 steps in a recessed porch leads to a 6-panel door at the former Row level. This door has a flush tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes with bars removed from the central lower sash. The third storey has a similar sash with all glazing bars intact, and the fourth storey has two 9-pane unequal sashes. The former Row bressumer level features a moulded stringcourse. The corner to Crook Street to the east has flush painted stone quoins and painted stone sills. A gauged brick arch rises to the third storey sash, and slightly cambered arches rise to the fourth storey windows. A stone-coped gable faces the street.

The east side to Crook Street has a boarded opening to the former undercroft, a 4-pane sash, and a 9-pane stair window at the Row storey level. A band of 3 brick courses at the third storey floor is raised over the stair window. There is a blocked opening and a small inserted window in the third storey, with a blocked brick arch to the right of the stair window. Two large lateral windows are also present. The rear has a high-walled yard. Two flush 12-pane sashes face the third storey, with a stringcourse on brick corbels carried also across Nos. 48 & 50 Street. A 9-pane unequal sash and a 16-pane flush sash face the fourth storey. The window openings have cambered heads on blocking courses to the third storey. A gable faces the rear.

The interior of the front room of the undercroft contains a chamfered oak beam and a plastered beam. The stair bay has some rough timber framing in the west wall and a newel stair with 2 barleysugar-on-vase balusters per step and a heavy moulded rail, all painted. A large damaged oak beam spans across the front of the stairwell. The rear room has an open fireplace against the east wall and 2 large re-used oak beams spanning front to back, with exposed joists. A 2-panel door connects the stair to the Row storey.

At the former Row level, the front room has a door of 4 fielded panels and a ceiling of 3 panels between moulded beams spanning from front to back, with a carved wooden fire-surround painted. The window embrasure to Crook Street has panelled shutters. The east rear room has a wide fireplace-opening in a breast on the east wall. The west rear room has some altered small-panelling of oak. The stair, broader than that below from the undercroft and in good condition, rises to the third and fourth storeys.

The front third storey room has early 18th-century bolection moulded panelling with one row of panels below the dado rail and a tall row above. The overmantel has a large panel above a pair of small panels. There are 2 stop-chamfered plastered beams and a moulded cornice. The door is replaced. The 2 rear rooms have embrasures with window shutters. The fourth storey has no visible features of interest.