2, Adam Street

No 2 Adam Street is a former commercial building, now used as shops and houses, which includes a section that faces Chapel Street. It was built in 1826 by Woodhead and Hurst of Doncaster for Aire and Calder Navigation, with later 19th-century shop fronts. The building is constructed of brick and has a stucco finish, topped with a Welsh slate roof. It occupies a corner site on Chapel Street and is two storeys high, featuring two first-floor windows on the Adam Street front.

The building has pilaster strips at the ends of each elevation. The shop front at the rounded corner includes a central 20th-century board door beneath an original overlight, flanked by shop windows with three transoms on each street. On the Adam Street side, there is another similar shop front with a six-fielded-panel door and overlight to the left, and a three-light shop window to the right. All shop fronts have doors and windows set in wooden surrounds with pilasters, carved consoles (which are missing on the Chapel Street front), and a plain frieze with dosserets, cornice, and hood. At the time of the resurvey, all windows were partly boarded up.

On the first floor, there is a window at the corner with unsympathetic 20th-century glazing in an original eared and shouldered architrave. To the left, there is a pair of later 19th-century four-pane sash windows in original surrounds, complete with sills and eared and shouldered architraves. A worn bracketed raised tablet between the sashes is inscribed "COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS." The building features a moulded cornice and a coped parapet, with a large corniced roof stack on the Adam Street front and a corniced ridge stack on the Chapel Street front. The roof is hipped at the corner. The interior has not been investigated, but it is noted that the interior was altered in the 20th century. This building forms part of a terrace with the Royal Hotel and is part of the original planned port settlement beside Goole Docks.