Number 34 Row Number 36 Street

This is a remarkable building comprising an undercroft and town house, now used as a shop, storage area, and workshop. It dates back to the 14th century, with significant alterations in the late 16th century and around 1760. The building is constructed primarily of sandstone, timber framing, brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, and has a grey slate roof running at a right angle to the street, with a hipped front.

The exterior is four storeys high, including the undercroft and Row levels. The shopfront on Bridge Street has no noteworthy features. A flight of ten repaired steps leads up to the Row. The end pier is made of brick to the north and painted stone to the south, with a modern steel balustrade. The stallboard and Row walk are covered. The rear wall of the Row has a probable 16th-century studded five-board door on wrought-iron long hinges, positioned beneath a blocked, 18th-century fanlight with an architrave, cornice, and timber key. There's an architrave to a replaced window, a plastered ceiling to the stallboard and Row walk, and a plain bressumer. The third and fourth storeys each contain three flush, twelve-pane sash windows with painted stone sills, rusticated wedge lintels, and keystones. A coved cornice returns at the south end. A lead rainwater pipe and head are located to the north, while a chimney and part of the south wall have been rebuilt using Ruabon brick. The third storey to the rear features a flush, nine-pane sash window, and the fourth storey has a casement window with two six-pane lights and a flush verge to the gable.

The interior undercroft dates to the early to mid-14th century. The current floor is inserted, three steps below pavement level, with the lower part of the undercroft remaining beneath. The walls are constructed of squared sandstone rubble, incorporating some 17th and 20th-century brickwork. From the front, there are three oak beams parallel with the street, followed by two altered or renewed beams. These lead to a double-chamfered, full-width two-centre sandstone arch, a large beam, a second sandstone arch matching the first, a chamfered beam resting on stone corbels, a small 18th-century brick barrel vault, and sandstone rear walls. Two bays of the ceiling have broad oak joists, while the others show narrower joists where visible. Beyond the rear arch, the joists support visible rubble infill, similar to features found at numbers 12 Watergate Street and 28-34 Watergate Street (Booth Mansion). A rear doorway is now concealed by a safe. In the cellar, a beam bears a 1593 date, though it was likely repositioned from an upper storey during the 18th century refronting.

The Row storey has been stripped of original fittings and partitions, but retains bay posts, cross-beams, and north wall framing dating from around 1600. Some quarry-tiling is still visible. The staircase has been altered, though an upper flight has an open string with brackets and three column-on-vase balusters per step. Significant sections of the 16th-century timber frame are visible on the third storey. The fourth storey is lined and partitioned, but the roof structure and partition placement suggest that much of the original timber framing may remain intact.