7 And 9, Cross Street

Nos 7 and 9 on Cross Street are a pair of houses and shops, now used as houses, built around 1830. They feature red and yellow brick in contrasting Flemish bond and have a Welsh slate roof. The buildings have a double-depth plan, with each shop having a through-passage to the right and kitchens at the rear. They are two storeys high and have three first-floor windows.

The left side of No 9 has a rendered plinth. The shopfront for No 9 includes a step leading to a six-fielded-panel door beneath a moulded lintel and a plain overlight in the reveal. To the right, there is a 25-pane segmental bow window with a boarded apron. The door and window are framed by ribbed pilasters that support an entablature, which is bowed above the window, featuring dosserets, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. The shopfront for No 7 is similar but has a 20th-century part-glazed door to the right of the shop window.

Each passage entrance has recessed six-beaded-panel double doors within a ribbed reveal, topped by a ribbed lintel and a recessed brick panel beneath a channelled elliptical arch with a raised key and imposts. The first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes set in wooden roll-moulded architraves with sills beneath channelled wedge lintels. The buildings have a plain wooden eaves board and raised stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers, as well as a large corniced axial stack. The interior has not been investigated.