21 And 25, Stonegate

Three houses, originally dating to the 15th century, with significant alterations in the late 16th, 18th, and late 19th centuries, and an extension around 1700. They now function as two shops. The front is plastered over the original timber frame. The extension of around 1700 is built of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond, while other extensions use orange-brown brick in Flemish bond and orange brick in English garden-wall bond, all with plain tile roofs and brick stacks.

The front has four bays. The two left bays are two stories high with attics, while the two right bays are three stories and gabled. The first and second floors of the right-hand bay are jettied. The shopfronts are framed by plain pilasters with moulded imposts, supporting a cased jetty bressumer. They feature glazed and panelled shop doors and plate glass windows above panelled risers. A passage entrance is centrally located, enclosed by a pair of slatted gates with a brass plate displaying "T Anderson MD" within a foliate border. On the first floor, both end windows are oriels—the right one has a 16-pane sash, and the left one has tall 3-pane casements. There are two 16-pane sashes in the centre. On the second floor of No. 21, there is one 16-pane sash and one 4-pane fixed light. Raking dormers with 12- or 9-pane lights are located over the left end bays.

The rear of No. 21 features a wing supported by a colonnade of cast-iron columns with leaf capitals, spanning half the width of a passageway. A three-story wing at the rear of No. 21 includes a 16-pane first-floor sash and a 4-pane second-floor sash, both with soldier brick arches, and a hipped roof. A narrow 12-pane sash with a segmental brick arch is above the passageway. The three-story rear wing of No. 25 is gabled, with 2- and 3-light casement windows on the first and second floors.

The interior retains extensive timber framing on all floors of the original front range. In the left-central bay, a winder staircase rises from the first to the second floor, with close strings, slender turned balusters, square newels, and a steeply ramped moulded handrail. Remnants of small, round-headed cast-iron fireplaces survive in a rear ground-floor room to the right of the passage, and in the first floor of the right-hand end room. From 1898 to 1902, the premises at No. 21 Stonegate were used by George Walton, a designer who collaborated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow.