19 Carter Gate

A mid-C18 house with C20 retail unit at ground floor.

MATERIALS: the front elevation is of exposed, red-brick in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with slate tiles.

PLAN: rectangular in plan, orientated with shorter ends to north-east and south-west and presenting its front elevation to Carter Gate in the north-west. To the south is a passageway leading to the building’s rear where there is a later half-width, single-storey extension. A further single-storey extension sits beyond this, joining the rear wall in the south-east.

EXTERIOR: three stories with an attic, and a retail unit at ground floor. The ground floor has been altered in the late C20 with plate-glass windows beneath timber signage, placed either side of a central, recessed doorway. To the south is a passageway leading to the building’s rear, accessed behind a timber door with glazing bar overlight beneath a timber cover and segmented brick arches. A column clad in white faience tiles sits immediately south of this door. An incomplete ashlar pilaster runs vertically from ground to the middle of the second storey at the southern end of the building.

Each floor and the attic has two windows. The first floor has six-over-six sashes beneath segmented brick arches, these are separated from the second floor by a three-brick plat band. The second floor has three-over-six sash windows with flat heads which directly abut the timber fascia above. There are two mono-pitch roofed dormer windows in the roof slope. The house has two gable stacks. The fenestration is generally repeated to the rear, including the two box dormers in the attic storey. At the third floor, a single timber door serves as a fire escape and leads to a C20 steel escape stair.