Number 35 Street Number 43 Row

This property comprises an undercroft and town house, originally two shops and accommodation. It likely dates from the late medieval period, but was extensively refaced and largely rebuilt internally from Row level upwards in the 1890s for Charles Brown, probably by TM Lockwood. The building is constructed of sandstone, timber frame and brick, with a grey slate roof that is gabled at both the front and rear.

The exterior is three storeys and an attic in height, with one bay facing Watergate Street. There’s a contemporary shop front to Watergate Street. The Row shop front, now serving as an entrance to a restaurant, has a timber facade with three basket arches featuring fluted pilasters, although the entrance itself has been altered. To either side of the central arch are a three-panel stallboard and a window. The Row front has a timber rail on barleysugar balusters, a sloped boarded stallboard, and a granolithic Row walk. Exposed to a back passage in number 45 Row, the west side wall displays what is probably late medieval stonework concealed by later brickwork, painted. A bressumer runs across the Row front, supported by central and end posts with shaped brackets, and it features a slightly jettied fascia inscribed "IN THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH". The close-studded third storey has a projecting mullioned and transomed seven-light casement, now lacking its original glazing bars. There are three angled braces on each side of the casement above eaves level. The jetty beam above displays a cartouche inscribed "1890 : B,” three ornate quadrant-braced panels, herringbone bracing in the gable apex, bargeboards, and an ornate hollow finial. The rear of the building is hidden by a 20th-century extension.

The interior features, among other elements, a chamfered beam on an inserted timber corbel on the west side of the third storey, and a king-post truss in the fourth storey incorporating possible 17th-century timbers. Most visible features are from the 19th century. In a sunken rear yard, the base of a Roman column remains in situ, indicating that the Roman ground level was one metre higher than the undercroft floor.