48 And 50, Stonegate

Nos. 48 and 50 Stonegate is a former house, now used as shops and tea rooms, dating from around 1600 with 19th-century alterations. The building features early 19th-century shopfronts with modified glazing. It has a timber frame encased in render, which is colour-washed at the front, and includes a timber shopfront and doorcases with cast-iron glazing bars. The eaves cornice is moulded, and the roof is covered with pantiles and has brick stacks.

The exterior is three stories high with a two-window front, and both upper floors are jettied. The shopfronts have doorcases framed by sunk-panel pilasters, with moulded imposts and acanthus consoles beneath a moulded cornice that features lion mask stops. No. 48 has a plate glass shop window to the left of a recessed glazed and flush panelled door with an overlight. In the center, there are paired doorcases with a disused six-panel door and a glazed and flush-panel door for No. 50, both topped with fanlights that have beaded radial glazing bars. A plate glass shop window is to the right. Both shop windows still have roller blinds and sloped timber sills.

The first-floor windows are canted oriels with tripled one-pane sashes, while the second floor features squat six-pane sashes. The right return leads to a passageway with a door of six raised and fielded panels and Yorkshire sash windows, including three eight-pane lights on the ground floor and two nine-pane lights on the first floor.

Inside, the timber frame is exposed on the ground and second floors of No. 50. The first floor of No. 48 has a plain fireplace with a round-headed grate, while the front room of No. 50 features a corner fireplace with fluted jambs, a frieze with angle rosettes, a cornice shelf, and a hob grate. No. 50 also has a staircase leading from the first to the second floor, which has slender turned balusters, turned newels, and a moulded ramped handrail. An 18th-century door with two fielded panels is located in the attic of No. 50.