5-7 Carter Gate

5-7 Carter Gate is a former public house from the 19th century, which has been converted into two shops on the ground floor in the 20th century.

The building is primarily constructed of exposed red brick with painted stone dressings, and it features concrete roof tiles with two brick chimney stacks. It has a roughly square plan, with its main facade facing Carter Gate. At the rear, there is a two-storey gable extension with a single gable stack, along with a single-storey flat-roof extension attached to the rear wall.

The structure stands over three storeys and has three window bays. The ground floor has been divided into two shopfronts, both of which are 20th-century alterations featuring piers made of Flemish bonded brickwork of different types. Each shopfront includes recessed doors, glass displays, fascias, stallrisers, and recessed entrances, though they do not match each other.

On the first floor, there are three Georgian sash windows; the outer two are eight-over-eight, while the central window has six-over-six lights. The second floor has three windows, with two casement windows for number 5 on the left and a four-over-four-light sash window for number 7. The front elevation is characterized by plat bands at the first and second floors, and beneath the second-floor plat band is a deep painted band of brickwork, black at number 5 and cream at number 7.

The eaves are dentillated and sit beneath a pitched roof of concrete tiles, which is gabled at both ends. The southernmost chimney stack is built on the gable, while the northernmost is located on the ridge. The southern gable is partially visible from the street, while the northernmost stack is adjacent to the neighbouring building. Additionally, ten metal plates affixed to the brickwork suggest previous signage on the building’s front elevation.