51c New Briggate

This building, located at 51c New Briggate, was originally a town house and later served as a boarding school and club. It is now a restaurant and shop. Constructed between 1710 and 1720, it features a late Georgian style and has undergone alterations from the 19th to the 21st century.

The structure is made of brick, with rendered and incised surfaces, vermiculated rusticated quoins, and plain ashlar with painted stone dressings. The roof is covered with graded stone slate and has a square plan.

The building stands three storeys tall with a basement and has a half-hipped, half-gabled roof with off-set stacks at the southern end. The front elevation consists of five bays, with the three central bays slightly projecting forward. It has an ashlar-incised rendered plinth and vermiculated rendered blocks on each floor. There is a painted stone band between the ground and first floors, a moulded stone cornice between the first and second floors, and a modillion eaves cornice.

The central door is framed by plain pilaster jambs with Doric moulded plinths and capitals that support an entablature featuring triglyphs and a moulded cornice. The doorway has moulded jambs, a lowered door sill, and a large two-light early 20th-century top-light over a late 20th-century door. On either side of the door are two windows, with a narrow subsidiary door located close to the left-hand corner. All these openings have stone moulded quoin jambs (painted), with a stone lintel above the subsidiary door and stone sills and deep lintels for the windows, which support the stone band. The upper floors feature five windows each, with similar stone moulded quoin jambs, sills, and lintels; the windows on the second floor are shorter. The windows are primarily one-over-one pane sashes, with some one-over-one pane fixed frames on the ground floor, and the first-floor windows have early 20th-century diamond leaded glazing.

The east elevation is finished with ashlar incised render. Inside, the building is reputed to contain original plaster ceilings on the first floor and features a balustraded stair.