26 and 28, Gillygate

26 and 28 Gillygate are two houses built in 1769 by Robert Clough, now serving as a doctors' surgery and shop. The buildings have been altered in the early 19th and 20th centuries. They are constructed of brick in Flemish bond with some painted stone dressings and feature a slate roof.

The exterior has three storeys plus an attic and consists of seven bays. The facade includes a plinth, a storey band above the ground floor, and a dentilled modillion gutter cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with the glazing bars being a 20th-century restoration, and are topped with rubbed brick flat arches and projecting sills. The ground-floor windows are fitted with panelled external shutters, and there are four flat-roofed attic dormers.

The ground floor of No.26, which occupies the two right-hand bays, features a 19th-century shopfront with timber pilasters and fascia, along with a doorway set back between two plate-glass windows. To the left, the fifth bay contains an early 19th-century Tuscan pilaster doorcase with an entablature and cornice hood, an overlight with glazing bars, and a door with six flush panels. The second bay has an original doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns, a triglyph frieze, a fanlight, and an open dentilled pediment. Adjacent to the doorway is a snuffer, and to the right of the facade is a rainwater downpipe with a lead hopper dated '1770'. There are chimneys positioned in front of the ridge to the left and right, as well as near the centre.

Inside, No.26 has an original staircase and ceiling cornices, as recorded by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. No.28 is noted for its rococo plasterwork in a ground-floor room and the saloon above, along with a roundel featuring Gothic cusping above the staircase. The staircase in No.28 has turned balusters with large plain umbrella-shaped knops. There are some original fireplaces, along with later ones added by Thomas Wolstenholme.