St Werburgh Mount

A row of five shops and upper storey premises built in 1874 by John Douglas for George Hodgkinson, and linked to Nos 15 and 17 St Werburgh Street. The buildings are timber-framed with brick nogging, some plaster panels, and brown tile roofs. No.19 is three storeys high, while the others are two storeys. A colonnade supports the projecting upper storeys, resting on seven timber posts with sandstone plinths. The shopfronts are divided by brick piers and have timber-framed stallrisers. No.19 has a nine-panel door with reeded muntins and rails; Nos. 25 and 27 have six-panel doors, now glazed; and Nos. 21 and 23 have replacement doors. The windows are predominantly one-pane, except for No.19 which has a three-pane window. Leaded glazing is present above the transoms of all shop windows. The colonnade features a timber bressumer with quadrant braces, and the ceiling displays exposed beams and joists. The upper storey of No.19 has a projecting front gable, featuring a narrow two-cross-rail plaster panel with an oriel window extending through both storeys. Below the oriel are four panels of floral pargeting, a coved jetty, and a gable with quadrant and herringbone braces, plaster panels, panelled bargeboards and a terracotta finial. Nos. 21 and 23 have brick-nogged small framing, with mullioned casement windows of 3;3; lights, leaded glazing above the transom, and cove-jettied gables with hipped tile aprons, flowers-and-foliage pargeting. Nos. 25 and 27 are similar, each featuring a 3;3 light mullioned oriel, plaster-panelled apron, and cove-jettied gable with quadrant and herringbone braces, panelled bargeboards and a terracotta finial. There are three shaped brick chimneys. Interior features within the shops are largely obscured. The upper storeys were not inspected.