5-7 Carter Gate

A former public house dating from the C19, with ground floor converted into two shops in the C20.

MATERIALS: the building is predominately of exposed red brick with painted stone dressings. The roof tiles are concrete with two brick stacks.

PLAN: 5 and 7 form a single building roughly square on plan with its principal elevation facing Carter Gate.A two-storey gable extension projects to the rear with a single gable stack, and a further single-storey flat-roof extension abutting the rear wall.

EXTERIOR: the building is set over three storeys with three window bays. The ground floor has been divided into two shopfronts, with two upper storeys. Both shopfronts are C20 alterations, with C20 piers in Flemish bonded brickwork of differing types. Both shopfronts have recessed doors; glass shopfronts; fascias and incorporate stallrisers and recessed entrances, though unmatched.

At first floor are three Gergian sash windows, the outer two are eight-over-eight, whilst the central window is of six-over-six lights. Across the second floor are three windows, the windows at this level for number 5 (left) are two casement windows whilst the window for number 7 is a four-over-four-light sash window. The front elevation is principally defined by first and second floor plat bands. Beneath the second-floor plat band is a deep, painted band of brickwork (black at number 5 and cream at number 7).

Dentillated eaves sit beneath a pitched roof of concrete tiles that are gabled at the ends with two brick chimney stacks, the southernmost built on the gable with the northernmost on the ridge. The southern, coped gable is partially visible from the street with the northernmost abutting the neighbouring building. Ten metal plates affixed to the brickwork show likely evidence of signage on the building’s front elevation.