16-19 Whitefriargate

Four mid to late-C18 houses, now shops, with mid- to late-C19 and C20 alterations. Classical style.

(Formerly listed as: WHITEFRIARGATE (South side) Nos.16 AND 17) (Formerly Listed as: WHITEFRIARGATE (South side) Nos.18-20 (Consecutive))

MATERIALS: painted stucco, red brick, slate roof.

PLAN: an east-west aligned building. Polygonal on plan

EXTERIOR: information provided from photographic sources. The building contains four shops (formerly part of a block of five shops with 20 Whitefriargate). The two-storey main (north) elevation has a symmetrical eight-bay street frontage, with a pitched roof and a moulded eaves cornice and blocking. The ground-floor has a moulded C20 cornice, with four late-C20 shop fronts and a doorway (number 17A) between the eastern pair of shop-fronts. The doorway is decorated with late-C20 wooden pilaster jambs supporting a keystone arch, with a fan-light set above a recessed porch with a marble floor and single-panel woode door with multi-paned overlight. The first-floor has stucco inscribed to represent ashlar and eight tall C20 moulded windows surrounds with projecting sills and C20 metal glazing bar casements.