15, King Street

This is a former warehouse, now a shop, dating from the mid-18th century. It was partly rebuilt in the late 19th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with dressed stone dressings on the original left-hand section facing King Street, and squared coursed sandstone on the right. It has a rectangular plan parallel to the street. A loading slot, now visible only on the first and second floors, is located slightly right of centre, with a waggon entrance in the first bay. The building is three storeys high and has three widely-spaced bays facing King Street. A canted corner contains a recessed shop entrance, and there are two narrow bays to the right of Old Sir John’s Arcade. The ground floor was altered around 1900 with the insertion of a shop front, although the original fascia remains. The loading slot is now partly glazed and retains corbels on the second floor to support a platform. The first-floor window above the waggon entrance has been lengthened and lost its central mullion. The second-floor window is original and retains a chamfered mullion. The windows to the right of the loading slot are similar but slightly taller. All the windows have surrounds with a slight chamfer. To the right of the entrance, there are two windows visible on each upper floor, each with plain reveals and four-pane sashes.