10, Minster Gates

No. 10 Minster Gates is one of a pair of houses, now serving as a shop and offices, built around 1755. It features an early 19th-century shopfront and was raised and altered further in the mid-19th century following the demolition of the second house. The building is constructed of orange-grey brick in Flemish bond, with the right side rendered. It has a timber shopfront and guttering supported on paired modillions, a tiled roof, and a brick stack.

The exterior is four stories high with a two-window front. The shop window is a shallow bow with three plate glass lights. To the right, there is a two-leaf half-panelled shop door with bordered lozenge glazing and a fanlight, set in a doorcase with sunk-panelled pilasters that have decorative drops, fluted necking, moulded imposts, and a swagged frieze. To the left, a six-panel upstairs door features a Gothick-glazed overlight and is recessed in a similar doorcase with acanthus brackets above the pilasters. All of this is beneath a moulded cornice.

The first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes, while the second floor has squat 6-pane sashes, all with flat arches of orange gauged brick. The third floor includes one 2x4-pane casement window with a timber lintel. A five-course raised brick band marks the second floor. At the rear, the ground floor has a wide small-pane window, and other windows feature segmental brick arches. The right return has an inserted two-light shop window in a plain surround.

The interior was only inspected on the ground floor, which features a ceiling with a shallow fluted dome in a moulded surround, supported by fluted columns, with only one column visible; the others are likely cased. The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHM) records an original main staircase from the first floor upwards with elaborate turned balusters, and some original doors, architraves, and fireplaces are also noted to survive.