10 Eastgate Street and 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South

10 Eastgate Street and 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South form an undercroft and Row shops below a former townhouse. Built in 1861 in the Vernacular Revival style, the building was designed by George Williams, who also designed the adjacent 12 Eastgate Street and 12 Eastgate Row South. It is an early example of this emerging style, characterised by timbers applied to plaster panels serving a purely decorative function. Williams was previously known for classical architecture, including the National Westminster Bank at 33 Eastgate Street, completed in 1859-1860.

In the early 20th century the two Row properties were separate units, with 10 Eastgate Row in office use. By the mid-20th century they had been altered into a single retail unit. The undercroft underwent internal alterations and received a new shopfront in the mid-to-late 20th century. The two upper storeys are now in retail and storage use.

The building is constructed of sandstone and timber framing, part of which is probably false, with plaster panels. It has a grey-slate roof with its ridge parallel with Eastgate Street.

The building is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row level, plus attics. At street level there is a modern shopfront to the undercroft. The Row has an ornate cast-iron front railing with panels of ornamented circles in squares. A sloping stallboard, measuring 1.82 metres from front to back, and the Row walkway have their surfaces covered. Painted-stone cross walls stand at each end of the stallboard. The Row has a modern shopfront and a panelled plaster ceiling. Painted brackets, probably of stone, carry the bressumer above the Row. This has stop-chamfered arrises comparable with those by James Harrison at 40 Bridge Street and 40 Bridge Street Row West, and 51 Bridge Street and 53 Bridge Street and 59, 59A and 59B Bridge Street Row East.

The third storey has a row of shaped brackets beneath brattishing under a pair of jettied five-light mullioned casement windows with two transoms. The upper lights incorporate quatrefoil and hollow-lozenge features. The fourth storey has two ornate canted five-light oriel windows carried on a large moulded base. Each window has ornate sub-panels and corner colonnettes in a 13th-century manner, with blank tracery above the upper lights. Between and to the sides of the oriels are zig-zag braced panels.

Above each oriel window is a jetty carrying a gabled dormer window to the attic. These have quatrefoil and ornamental cusped panelling beneath a four-light stepped casement window and ogee heads to the side and upper lights. Each gable has spiral-moulded corner colonnettes on carved corbels and deep moulded bargeboards. The roof has a steep gabled lucarne with one ogee-headed pane. The west end-gable is of brown brick with diaperwork in blue-black and white brick.

Interior features of special interest include architraves and small-paned sash windows to the rear. The east side of the building, inspected from the rear and the fourth storey front gallery of 12 Eastgate Street and Eastgate Row South, which was rebuilt in 1861, shows that 10 Eastgate Street was built before 12 Eastgate Street.