9 Cheapside

A wool-stapler’s warehouse of the first quarter of the C19, converted as offices.

MATERIALS: hand-made brick with some sandstone walling, stone-flag roof.

PLAN: a three-storey block facing onto Cheapside with a rear façade to Carter Street.

EXTERIOR: the entrance faces Cheapside. The building is of five bays, in red brick laid to English Garden Wall bond of three stretcher courses to each header course. The central full-height loading bay has replacement doors and (upper floor) a modern Juliet balcony. To either side are stacked windows. To the left, these are early-C19 two-over-two sash windows without horns, in enlarged openings with flat brick arch heads and sandstone sills. To the right they are smaller, eight-over-eight sashes, also without horns, with segmental-arched brick heads and sandstone sills. There are vertical brick joints with the buildings to either side. The eaves gutter is supported by late-C19 decorative cast-iron corbels.

The rear façade is of squared sandstone rubble to the ground floor, and above brown brick in stretcher bond up to the first floor, below English Garden Wall bond of four stretcher courses to each header course. Windows are modern casements and small, with sandstone sills and lintels. One window in the sandstone wall is blocked with C19 brick. There is a vertical mortar joint with number 11 at the left (which is taller), and at the right, the adjacent number 7 (not included) projects. There is some modern signage, and an external air-conditioning unit*.

INTERIOR: this is largely modernised but retains the structural fabric, including hewn purlins and six king-post roof trusses. Doorways have been cut in the former party wall with number 7, to allow a stair there to access the floors of number 9.

*Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the external air conditioning unit to the rear façade is not of special architectural or historic interest. However, any works which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require listed building consent and this is a matter for the local planning authority to determine.