4, Shipgate Street

No. 4 Shipgate Street is a small town house, now part of an office with No. 2, dating from the mid-18th century and altered over time. It is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick and features a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front. The building has a semi-basement and two storeys, presenting a double fronted facade.

The semi-basement has two replaced 6-pane casements. Access is via nine stone steps with simple iron railings leading to a stone landing in front of the entrance. The door consists of six fielded panels set within a well-crafted panelled case, which includes quasi-Ionic fluted pilasters, an architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a modillion cornice. Above the door is a pediment adorned with a cockle-shell flanked by two winged putti-heads on the tympanum.

The building features a two-course floor-band and two 12-pane flush sash windows on the ground floor, as well as a three-course second storey floor-band with two additional 12-pane flush sashes. All sash windows have gauged brick heads and lack sills. The brick parapet is topped with simple stone coping.

On the west end, there is a replaced 6-pane casement in the basement and a small inserted fixed light with small panes on the second storey. The rear of the building has been altered.