Nos 1-5 Including Flats 1 And 3

This is a late 18th-century house, now used as shops and flats, located on the south side of Howden High Bridge. It has undergone later alterations, including the raising of the two left bays from two to three storeys, the insertion of 19th and 20th-century shop fronts, and subdivision into flats. The building is constructed of pale orange-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with orange brick and stone dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof.

Originally designed with a double-depth plan and a three-room north front, the building is three storeys high and six bays wide. It features orange brick quoins. A basket-arched passage archway is situated in the second bay, leading to a double-panelled door within a painted surround. A shop front dating from around 1980 is located to the left (No. 5). To the right, a section (No. 3) has been rendered and includes a 20th-century door and a 19th-century four-pane sash window with a bracketed stone sill. The rightmost bay (No. 1) has a wide 19th-century shop front, altered in the 20th century, with a 20th-century glazed door and overlight, and a two-light window to the left side; a 20th-century glazed door and a surviving 19th-century four-light window are on the right side. These are set within a wooden surround featuring a pair of carved consoles, a plain frieze, and a bracketed cornice.

The first floor has 12-pane sashes in the first two bays, set in reveals with sills beneath channelled wedge lintels with fluted keys. Bays 3 and 4 retain original 16-pane sashes. Bays 5 and 6 have narrower 19th-century plate-glass sashes (originally 12-pane) in their original surrounds. The second floor follows a similar pattern, with unequal 9-pane sashes in the first two bays, unequal 12-pane sashes in bays 3 and 4, and plate-glass sashes in bays 5 and 6. Windows in bays 3 to 6 are set within original flush wooden architraves and orange brick surrounds with sills beneath painted rubbed-brick flat arches. A bracketed wooden eaves cornice is present on bays 3 to 6, while bays 1 and 2 have a plain wooden eaves board and bracketed gutter. A brick ridge stack is located to the left of centre, and a rebuilt 20th-century end stack is to the right. A stone-coped gable with a shaped kneeler is visible on the left gable.

The interior of No. 3 has a section of moulded plaster cornice and a ribbed ceiling surround with paterae on the ground floor. No. 1 retains an original open-well staircase with a ramped, corniced handrail and plain balusters, though it has not been fully investigated. Adjoining ranges to the rear are not of special architectural interest.