41 Daisy Hill, Dewsbury including setted rear yard

Shop and domestic accommodation built after 1853 and by 1861, possibly designed by John Kirk and Sons for William Fryer.

The building is constructed of buff sandstone and red brick walls with a slate roof. It presents as a three-storey, two-window mini-palazzo facing north onto Daisy Hill. The main front features rock-faced masonry with a deep, moulded and bracketed cornice. The windows have decorative shouldered architraves and bracketed sills. At the first floor the windows are eared with central lintel roundels, and at the second floor they have keystone-arched heads. Both floors contain timber casement windows with leaded glass in the upper lights only at the first floor, featuring heraldic designs. The ground floor has a timber shopfront with a modern window flanked by pilasters and a dentilled cornice over an awning. The recessed doorway at the left has a modern door but retains a tiled floor and a curved former flanking display window at the left, now without glass. The roof is slate with stone gable coping and ridge chimney stacks.

The east wall is partly obscured by 2-6 Church Street and shows similar stonework with render repair where the former abutting building was removed. The wall is gabled with a short gable stack and is blind except for an arched second-floor stair window, with the cornice returning a short distance. The west wall is partly obscured by number 43, though the visible second-floor wall is brick and blind, with a short cornice return and a wide stone gable chimney stack.

The south rear wall is of brick laid in English Garden Wall bond, with a stone low plinth, lintels and sills, moulded kneelers and gutter corbels. The roof is slate with stone gable copings. At the left are three stacked windows with timber casements; the first-floor window has leaded glass with a heraldic upper light matching the front windows. At the right is a door with an arched brick head, with a separate first-floor stair window above and a tall second-floor stair window with an arched brick head. Both stair windows have decorative etched glass panes in timber glazing bars with red margin lights acid-etched with a botanical design.

The cellar has stone walls, floor and steps, and a stone table in the front chamber, with some original door architraves. The ground floor has a stone-flagged passage from the stair to the rear door. The shop area has a suspended ceiling and modern tiled floor with no visible features of interest.

The stairs are original with a ramped balustrade and turned balusters, boarded on the first flight, and a triangular built-in cupboard on the first-floor half landing. The first-floor stair window retains etched glass of two different designs in all its central panes. The second-floor stair window retains etched glass in its top four central panes with replacement panes in the lower two, and one margin light is of clear glass.

The first-floor rooms have suspended ceilings and boarded walls with no visible features except for a large wall-safe in the rear room, marked WITHY GROVE STORES MANCHESTER ESTABLISHED 1850, the company still trading in Withy Grove, Manchester. The second-floor rooms retain fireplaces, enclosed in the rear room but displayed in the front room with a moulded surround, mantelpiece and arched cast-iron grate.

The small rear yard is of stone setts with a blocked basement access.