88,89, Fishergate Hill

Nos. 88 and 89 Fishergate Hill are a pair of town houses, now used as offices and surgeries, built around 1830-1840 and altered over time. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The buildings have a rectangular double-depth plan, each house being double-fronted with added back extensions. They rise three storeys over basements and feature three windows on each floor, arranged symmetrically. Notable architectural details include a first-floor sill-band, a plain frieze, a moulded gutter cornice, and a low blocking course.

Each house has a central doorway that is protected by a porch supported by fluted Doric columns and unfluted pilasters. These porches have a deep entablature, moulded cornice, and blocking course, along with a panelled door and plain overlight. The porches are accessed by a short flight of steps that form a bridge over the basement area, although the steps for No. 89 are now filled in. The windows, which decrease in height, all have raised sills and wedge lintels. Most are sashed without glazing bars, except for one at the first floor and two at the second floor of No. 88. There is a lateral chimney stack at the junction of the two houses and an altered chimney at the right-hand gable. The left gable wall has been rebuilt in modern brick.

At the rear, No. 89 features various 12- and 6-pane sashed windows, and both houses have added back extensions—two storeys at No. 88 and one storey at No. 89. Inside, there are moulded architraves on the doors, moulded plaster cornices in both entrance halls, and very elaborate vine friezes in the principal ground floor rooms. Each house has doglegged staircases, which now have boarded balusters.