16-19 Whitefriargate

16-19 Whitefriargate consists of four houses from the mid to late 18th century, which have been converted into shops and altered in the mid to late 19th century and 20th century. The building is designed in a classical style.

The structure is made of painted stucco and red brick, topped with a slate roof. It is aligned east-west and has a polygonal shape.

The main north elevation features a symmetrical eight-bay street frontage over two stories, with a pitched roof and a moulded eaves cornice. The ground floor has a moulded cornice from the 20th century, with four modern shop fronts and a doorway (number 17A) situated between the eastern pair of shop fronts. This doorway is adorned with 20th-century wooden pilaster jambs that support a keystone arch, and it includes a fan-light above a recessed porch with a marble floor and a single-panel wooden door topped with a multi-paned overlight. On the first floor, the stucco is inscribed to imitate ashlar, featuring eight tall 20th-century moulded window surrounds with projecting sills and 20th-century metal glazing bar casements.