47 And 49, Foregate Street

Nos. 47 and 49 Foregate Street is a town house that later became a hotel and is now used as a shop with additional accommodation. Originally built in 1597, it was rebuilt in a similar style in 1914 for Peter Walker and Sons Brewery and underwent restoration and conversion into part of a shop around 1980. The building features a timber frame with plaster panels and steel framing, topped with a Westmorland green slate roof that runs parallel to the street.

The exterior consists of three storeys and three bays, creating an almost symmetrical appearance. There are three modern doors located just to the left of the centre, set on a polished granite plinth that rises beneath each post. To the left of the entrance, there are two narrow two-pane windows and a modern secondary door, while to the right, there are four similar windows. Each opening is flanked by end-posts and a post that has Ionic reverse-taper pilasters with herms displaying varied expressions, which support corbels.

The first floor jetties out and features quadrant-braced small-framing, with a central three-light casement window that has a mullion and transom, alongside a canted five-light mullioned and transomed oriel window supported by three ornate consoles on each side. The second floor includes a central two-light casement window above two arch-braced panels, as well as a tripartite window arrangement of one, two, and one light, with herringbone struts in the jettied gable supported by two herms on either side. All windows are leaded. A wrought-iron sign-bracket is positioned above the doorway.

The tiebeam on the left gable is inscribed "BUILT 1597 AD," while the right gable tiebeam reads "REBUILT 1914 AD." The building is adorned with bargeboards and drop finials, and features a tall, elaborately detailed brick chimney located on the ridge, towards the right of centre. The interior has not been inspected.