Number 22 Row Number 22 Street

Number 22 Row is an undercroft and town house, likely originating in the 14th century, with timber framing of the upper structure dating to the 17th century and a mid-19th century brick facade and casing. The building is now shops and offices. It is constructed of sandstone, timber framing, and Flemish bond brown brick, with a grey slate roof.

The front, facing Watergate Street and Row, has a painted rusticated stone facade below the Row level and at the corner with Goss Street. It features a segmental-arched doorway containing a covered broad-board door to the west, and a camber-arched four-pane central window. Rendered brick end piers rise to the Row, separated by two intermediate Tuscan pillars and cast-iron railings with round-arched heads and roundels. A rendered bressumer with a cornice moulding runs above, and the front to the Row shop has a half-glazed four-panel door between panelled pilasters at the west, and a small three-light camber-arched shop window at the centre. Recessed twelve-pane sash windows are visible on the third storey, with painted stone sills and wedge lintels. A brick string-course, with one upper course oversailing two courses, is located at the second floor. Nearly-flush twelve-pane sashes are on the fourth storey, with painted stone sills and gauged brick arches. A brick cornice projects in three stages: one course, two courses, and then one course, below an eleven-course parapet with a moulded stone cap.

The east side, facing Goss Street, has a recessed doorway in a shouldered architrave, approached by six repaired stone steps, and a door of six fielded panels. There are twelve-pane and sixteen-pane sashes, as well as a sixteen-pane stair window. The full-width gable to the rear is largely concealed by Number 1 Goss Street.

The interior of the undercroft has a formerly four-bay structure of Samson posts, supporting a damaged bridging joist of large scantling. The front post, partly cut away, features a damaged jetty-bracket towards the Row. Two further Samson posts remain, with a chamfered cross-beam on the bridging joist opposite each, carrying broad, heavy common joists. Brick supports are inserted under the east ends of the cross-beams. A barrel-vaulted rear extension of plastered brick, probably from the 18th century, is not of full width. The shop at Row level has a timber post exposed in the west wall and a panelled window embrasure. Modern surfaces conceal the structure of the third and fourth storeys, but a simple panelled fire surround remains in the front room of the fourth storey.