Numbers 3, 5 And 7 And Attached Garden Wall

Numbers 3, 5, and 7 on Coney Street are a group of former houses, originally known as Nos. 2, 3, and 4, which have been combined to create a department store. The buildings date from the early 18th century, with 19th-century extensions at the rear and alterations, including a shopfront added around 1960.

The exterior features three stories, with three windows at No. 3, four at No. 5, and six at No. 7. The shopfront runs across the ground floor of all three buildings. The second floor of No. 3 has 12-pane sash windows, three of which are original 18th-century windows with painted flat arches made of gauged brick. Other windows have been modified to various styles, including several 2-light bordered casements, and two on the first floor of No. 5 are set in raised architraves with painted flat arches. All three buildings have a plain parapet, and Nos. 3 and 5 feature inverted bell rainwater heads decorated with winged cherub heads, dated 1775 and 1770, respectively.

At the rear, there is a garden wall between Nos. 5 and 7, which varies in height from approximately 2.0 to 4.0 metres. A terrace garden is built against one side of No. 5, while outbuildings are constructed against the other side of No. 7. The garden wall is made of orange-red brick in stretcher bond, topped with moulded stone coping and partly covered in asphalt. Although the interior was not inspected, records indicate that there are surviving plaster ceilings on the ground floor of No. 5 and at the rear of the first floor of No. 7. Additionally, Nos. 3 and 5 contain 18th-century staircases.