34, 36, 36A, 38 Carter Gate

34, 36, 36A, and 38 Carter Gate are three early 19th century houses featuring late 19th century shopfronts. They are constructed of brick with timber windows and shopfronts, topped with a slate roof.

The buildings are rectangular in shape, oriented with their shorter ends facing north-east and south-west. They rise two storeys beneath a pitched roof with gable ends to the north-east and south-west, and they are adjacent to neighboring structures. Numbers 34 and 38 have chimney stacks that were originally located on their rear walls but now extend through the center of their catslide-extended rear roof slopes. Number 36 features a central chimney stack on the ridge of its roof. The rear of the properties is obscured by 20th century additions.

The façade faces south-east towards Carter Gate. Numbers 34 and 36 are built of brick in Flemish bond, while number 38 is in English garden wall bond, all finished with cream paint. On the ground floor, number 34 has a single shopfront to the right (north-east), and centrally, there is a six-panel door leading to Carter’s Yard at the rear, set under a brick segmental arch lintel. To the left (south-west) is a double shopfront for numbers 36 and 38, which now operates as a single unit. Number 34’s shopfront features reeded pilasters topped with scrolled brackets that support a cornice, beneath which are two large plate glass windows and a deeply recessed single door. The shopfront for numbers 36 and 38 is similar but has a wider central recess allowing for two separate glass panelled doors, with each of the two large plate glass windows featuring stained glass top lights above a transom.

On the first floor, there are three windows: a central six-over-six sash window aligned with the door to Carter’s Yard, under a brick segmental arch lintel, flanked by two six-over-six sash windows, each with two-over-two margin lights.