26, Hallgate

No 26 Hallgate is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the early 19th century and has undergone minor alterations since then. The building features stucco on coursed squared stone, a basement with painted stone dressings, and a slate roof. It stands three storeys high, plus an attic and basement, and has a three-bay by two-bay layout.

The main front has three bays, with steps leading up to a central six-panel door that is topped by a traceried fanlight set in a moulded arch with an impost band. The doorcase is pilastered and features a triglyphed frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course adorned with relief urns on either side. Between the urns is a blind balustraded apron panel beneath the first-floor window.

On either side of the entrance, there are full-height bow windows, with the right bow having a basement window beneath a flat voussoired stone arch. The ground floor has full-height tripartite fixed small pane bow windows, while the first floor features full-height tripartite bowed sashes. The front windows have 15-pane sashes and 5-pane sashes on the sides. Each first-floor window is complemented by a simple bracketed bowed iron balcony and has a moulded cornice above.

At the centre of the first floor is a 12-pane sash window set in a timber architrave with a cornice above a plain sill band, which is interrupted by the bows. Above this, there is another 12-pane sash window with a projecting sill, flanked by tripartite bowed sashes that have glazing bars and projecting sills supported by fanlike brackets. The far left features an original hopper head. The building has a moulded cornice and a 20th-century roof dormer. There is a brick end stack on the right and a stump of a ridge stack on the left, with the roof hipped at the left corner. The elevation facing Prince's Street to the west includes pairs of 12-pane sashes on the ground and first floors, both with timber architraves and cornices.