50, Hall Gate

This is a late 18th or early 19th century house, now used as offices. It is stuccoed with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The house has three storeys and five bays. It has a plinth and a central, semi-circular headed doorcase with a cavetto moulded arch. The doorcase contains double panelled doors below a traceried fanlight, all set within a wide panelled pilastered surround with a plain entablature, moulded cornice and blocking course. To either side of the doorcase are single sashes with panelled aprons, projecting sills, and six-pane upper sashes over single-pane lower sashes, set in pilastered surrounds with a frieze and cornice that blend with the doorcase. A similar sash is on the left, and a 20th-century semi-circular headed glazed door has been inserted to the right, below a plain fanlight and a small recessed panel above. A continuous moulded cornice runs along the ground floor, and a plain sill band is present on the first floor. The five first-floor sashes have six panes to the upper sashes and single panes to the lower sashes; the central one is within a moulded architrave with eared base, a moulded cornice on consoles, and a panelled apron. Above are five smaller sashes with three-pane top sashes and single-pane lower sashes, all with projecting sills, the central one in a shouldered architrave with a plain bracketed sill. A moulded stone cornice runs along the top of the building, and the end stacks are rendered. Quoins are visible on the return walls.

The interior contains an open-well, open-string, cantilevered stone staircase with a mahogany handrail and alternating plain and looped iron balusters. An octagonal ceiling light is above the staircase, extending to the third floor, featuring brightly coloured glass. Pilastered round arches are present on three sides of the first-floor landing. A left-hand room on the ground floor has a fine vine and acanthus cornice, while first-floor rooms have reeded cornices and corner paterae. The roof has king post trusses.