Number 39 Street Numbers 47 And 49 Row

This is a town house, now used as two shops and an office, rebuilt in the early 18th century. It stands on an undercroft, likely medieval in origin but altered in the 18th century. The building is constructed of painted sandstone, brick, and has a slate roof.

The exterior has four storeys, encompassing both the street level and the Row level. The street level features end piers and two intermediate piers of chamfered stone. It has glazed double doors with fixed windows of 16 panes on either side. The Row level has two Roman Doric columns, a wooden rail with turned balusters, and a largely 20th-century shopfront with a six-panel door on the right side. A frieze and cornice sit above the Row bressumer. There are three flush sash windows to each of the upper storeys; those on the third storey have 12 panes with thick glazing bars, while those on the fourth storey are shorter, with 16 panes. Stone sills are present, with console brackets supporting those on the third storey. All windows have gauged brick flat arches with moulded stone keystones. Rusticated quoins are visible, along with a plain band at the fourth-storey floor level, and a moulded cornice that carries a parapet with rusticated quoins and moulded coping. The rear elevation is of brown brick in irregular bond, with a later extension on the west side and replaced windows with gauged brick arches.

The undercroft retains walls of sandstone coursed rubble, 1.4 meters high, with an 18th-century brick barrel vault. The staircase from the Row level to the third storey has modern additions. The chamber above the Row, now divided into two spaces, has early 18th-century panelling with short panels below the dado and taller panels above. The cornice has dentils. Panelling from the west wall has been repositioned on the east face of an inserted partition. The sash windows have panelled embrasures, and the door has six margin panels. Other doors have two large panels and HL hinges. One back room has a repositioned stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, ending at the south end of a corner chimney-breast containing a 19th-century cast-iron fireplace. An open-well oak staircase leads to the fourth storey, with an open string, brackets, three column-on-vase balusters per step, and a substantial swept moulded rail. A two-light leaded window is located in the front room. There are three doors leading from the fourth-storey landing, each with two large fielded panels. The rooms on this storey were not inspected.