25, Walmgate

No. 25 Walmgate is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the late 17th century, with the front part re-roofed in the late 19th century and a late 19th-century shopfront, along with further later alterations. The front is made of painted brick in Flemish bond, while the rear is constructed from orange brick in English garden-wall bond. The shopfront features timber with cast-iron colonnettes, and the roof is covered with pantiles and has a rebuilt brick stack. The front gable displays ornate barge-boards with pendant finials, and there is brick coping on the rear gable.

The building has two storeys and an attic, with a gabled front that includes two windows. The shopfront is designed with sunk-panel pilasters and a moulded dentil cornice supported by paired carved brackets, topped with a spiked ball and pedestal finial at the right end. There is a glazed and panelled shop door beneath an overlight, flanked by two-light half-canted shop windows over panelled risers, and a glazed passage door at the right end. The first-floor windows are 1-pane sashes, while the attic features a 2x12-pane Yorkshire sash, all set beneath blocked elliptical arches.

At the rear, the building also has two storeys and an attic, with a segmental passage arch to the left of a 16-pane sash window and a 1-pane sash window on the first floor, both of which have blocked elliptical arches. The attic includes a 2x6-pane casement window beneath a segmental pediment made of moulded brick. There are 2-course raised brick bands at the first floor and attic levels.

Inside, there is an open well staircase with a moulded close string, bulbous balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail that rises from the ground to the first floor. The first-floor front room features a bolection moulded fireplace surround with a cornice shelf, and to the left, there is a 2-panel cupboard door on butterfly hinges. The roof is underdrawn, with the front truss supported by posts with sole pieces.