9 Cheapside

9 Cheapside is a wool-stapler’s warehouse dating from the first quarter of the 19th century, now used as offices. The building is a three-storey block with a main façade facing Cheapside and a rear façade onto Carter Street.

The front of the building is constructed of handmade brick in an English Garden Wall bond, featuring three stretcher courses to each header course. It has five bays, with a central full-height loading bay containing replacement doors and a modern Juliet balcony on the upper floor. To the left of the loading bay are larger windows with early 19th-century two-over-two sash windows, set within openings with flat brick arch heads and sandstone sills. To the right are smaller windows with eight-over-eight sashes, also without horns, with segmental-arched brick heads and sandstone sills. The building has vertical brick joints matching those of the properties to either side. Late 19th-century decorative cast-iron corbels support the eaves gutter.

The rear façade is constructed of squared sandstone rubble at ground floor level, with brown brick in stretcher bond above up to the first floor. Beyond that, the bond changes to an English Garden Wall pattern of four stretcher courses to each header course. The rear windows are modern casements of small size and have sandstone sills and lintels. One window in the sandstone section is blocked with 19th-century brickwork. A vertical mortar joint aligns with number 11 Carter Street (which is taller), while the adjacent number 7 (not included in the listing) projects. Modern signage and an external air-conditioning unit are also present.

The interior of the building has been largely modernized but retains its original structural fabric, including hewn purlins and six king-post roof trusses. Doorways have been cut into the former party wall with number 7 to allow access to a staircase located there, serving the floors of number 9.

Note: The external air conditioning unit on the rear façade has been specifically excluded from the listing as not contributing to the special architectural or historic interest of the building. However, any planned works that could affect the building’s character may still require listed building consent, which is a decision for the local planning authority.