101 and 103 Westgate, Flat 5 to rear of 97 Westgate

Pair of shops with domestic accommodation above, early to mid-C18 with later alterations.

MATERIALS: variably coloured handmade brick mainly laid in English garden wall bond, stone sills, replacement Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: two ground-floor shops flanking an open passageway through the building that provides access to the rear yard. Domestic accommodation above. The property to the right (west, number 103) has a truncated rear wing.

EXTERIOR: Westgate elevation: this is of four bays and two storeys with shopfronts flanking a round-arched pedestrian passageway leading to Schofield's Yard to the rear; the passage being below the western first-floor window of number 101. The shopfronts are late Victorian or Edwardian style but with relatively simple replaced joinery. The shop doors are six-panelled. The first-floor windows have stone sills and replaced sash windows; the two to number 101 being below segmental arches of brick headers, and those to 103 with flat lintels. The front elevation of number 103 is stepped back slightly, the eaves having a brick modillion cornice to maintain the roofline with number 101.

Rear elevation: retains one bay of the gabled, rearward projecting range behind number 103 Westgate; this being of two storeys but lower than the main building. Just above its ridgeline, a large square brick stack rises from the rear roof slope of 103 Westgate.