38, 40 and 42, Carter Street

Nos. 38, 40, and 42 Carter Street are three houses that have been converted into offices and shops. They were built in the early 18th century and were remodeled around 1800, with additions and alterations made in the mid-19th and 20th centuries. The buildings were restored around 1980. They are constructed of red brick and feature plain tile roofs with two coped brick ridge stacks.

The buildings are two storeys high and have a four-window range. The street front includes an off-centre reeded wooden doorcase with a cornice on brackets, leading to an early 19th-century six-panel door. To the left is a mid-19th-century wooden shopfront with a side door and original glazing bars. To the right is an early 19th-century wooden shopfront, which has been altered in the later 20th century, flanked by renewed glazing bar sashes. Above, there are four glazing bar sashes, with the one to the left dating from the 19th century.

The left gable features a blocked doorway to the right and a cross casement window at the peak. The rear wing has 19th-century glazing bar sashes. The rear elevation includes an additional wing in the return angle and two later 19th-century French windows. On the first floor, there is a metal-framed cross casement window, and to the left, there are later 19th-century additions that are two storeys high with segment-headed casements.

Inside, No. 38 has an original hearth with a bressummer on the ground floor, which contains a 19th-century fireplace and a 20th-century range. At the rear, there is a 20th-century inserted staircase and a winder stair dating from around 1800 leading to the second floor. The original chamfered cross beams are present, although some are cased in the 20th century.

No. 40 features a plastered barrel vault in the entrance passage and a wooden dogleg stair with double stick balusters and a hardwood handrail with inlaid scrollwork. The rear ground floor room has an early 20th-century fireplace and overmantel. The upper floors consist of plain rooms with chamfered span beams, along with early and mid-19th-century fireplaces and doors. There are also two early 18th-century panelled cupboard doors on the first floor.

No. 42 has a ground floor room with moulded cased span beams and a cornice dating from around 1800.