44, Watergate

No 44 Watergate is a house that has been converted into a house and shop. It dates from around 1700 and has been altered in the early to mid-20th century, with further changes in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick, with some sandstone detailing, and features a plain tile roof. It has two storeys and an attic, with chamfered quoins (the right-hand ones have been rebuilt), a plain wooden fascia, and coped parapeted gable ends (also rebuilt in the 20th century) that include integral brick end stacks. There are three 20th-century roof lights.

The facade consists of five bays, with first-floor wooden cross windows and ground-floor 18th-century boxed four-pane sash windows (the glazing bars have been removed), all featuring painted stone cills and lintels. To the right, there is a 20th-century plate-glass shop front. The roughly central doorway has been reset slightly to the right and includes a 20th-century half-glazed door, a rectangular overlight, and a painted stone lintel.

Inside, there is a well-detailed pre-1720 dog-leg oak staircase that rises two floors, featuring half-landings, a pulvinated closed string, stubby column-on-vase balusters, a moulded ramped handrail, and panelled square newel posts with moulded caps. There is also a depressed archway leading to the ground-floor corridor, which is flanked by panelled pilasters.