26 St Saviourgate

This is an early 18th-century town house, with later 19th-century and 20th-century alterations, originally built for Thomas Fothergill.

The front of the building is constructed of white-washed brick in Flemish bond, set on a chamfered stone plinth, with a timber cornice. The chamfered quoins, doorcases, and dressings are of painted stone, while the rear is of red-brown brick. The roof is tiled, with brick stacks, and has three flat dormers, each containing a window with 2x4 panes.

The building is two storeys and an attic, with a five-bay front. The central door consists of six raised and fielded panels, a fluted transom, and a plain fanlight, set within a round-arched architrave with spandrel paterae. A left-hand passage door has six sunk panels and an eight-pane overlight, set within a bolection-moulded doorway. A continuous moulded cornice above the ground floor windows breaks over each door to form a cornice hood. The ground floor windows are 12-pane sashes, while the first floor windows are unequal 15-pane sashes, with the centre window framed by an eared raised surround. All windows have painted stone sills, painted brick arches, and cast-iron window guards. A dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice features an embossed rainwater head with a winged cherub head, dated 1740, initialled MF, to the left of centre. The rear has a three-storey, twin-gabled front with a round-arched staircase window in the centre; other openings have been altered.

Inside, the ground floor entrance hall and passage are floored with stone flags. Fluted cornices are present in the entrance and stair halls, and the stairhall features an elliptical arch on pilasters with moulded imposts. The front room on the left has a moulded ceiling cornice and a round-headed basket grate within a painted stone, bolection-moulded fireplace with a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice shelf. The rooms to the right retain some moulded cornices. The main staircase to the second floor has an open string, turned balusters, a heavy moulded handrail ramped up to square newels, and a matching dado of raised and fielded panelling to the stairwell. The staircase window is flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters with a triglyph frieze and a moulded dentilled cornice. A secondary staircase to the second floor has a close string, slim bulbous balusters, square newels with attached half balusters, and a plain handrail. On the first floor, the landing has a moulded plaster ceiling with a central rosette within a lozenge frame. Other upper floor rooms retain original fireplaces with altered grates and some bolection-moulded panelling.