8, Fossgate

No. 8 Fossgate is a house that has been converted into a shop. The front block dates from the early 17th century, while the rear extension is from the late 17th century. There have been alterations in the 19th century, and a 19th-century extension connects to an early 18th-century rear block. The late 19th-century shopfront features a timber frame with painted plaster infilling. The rear extensions are made of brick, with the rear block constructed of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond, sitting on a one-course plinth of reused limestone blocks. The roofs are covered with pantiles.

The exterior showcases a three-storey, two-bay front with jettied upper floors and exposed timber framing. The pilastered shopfront includes an entablature with an egg-and-flower architrave, a fascia supported by brackets—one of which is carved with a shell and foliage—and a dentilled cornice. To the right is a plain door, while to the left are recessed glazed and panelled double doors with an overlight, flanked by a plate glass shop window featuring Composite colonnette mullions and spandrels decorated with Tudor flower ornament over raised panelled risers. The first-floor windows are three-light canted bays, and the second floor has tripartite sashes with 3:9:3 panes. The eaves project outward.

The interior has not been fully inspected, but it is noted that a first-floor room in the early 18th-century rear block has a blocked corner fireplace and walls covered with run-through panelling. A close string staircase with bulbous balusters is recorded in the late 17th-century extension. Additionally, limestone masonry incorporated in the rear block on Black Horse Passage may be part of the precinct wall of the former Carmelite Priory.