60, St Edward Street

This is a house with shops on the ground floor, later converted into flats above. It was built in 1883 and may have been designed by William Sugden & Son. The ground floor is finished in ashlar stone, while the upper floors are faced with half-timbering, with roughcast infill panels. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there are end wall stacks with moulded brickwork forming star-shaped shafts topped with stone caps.

The building is three storeys and an attic, with a two-window front composed of two parallel ranges connected by a narrower wing containing a hall and stairway. It features two shop fronts on the ground floor, a central entrance to the upper floors, and a wide entrance to a rear courtyard (now workshops) to the right. Above the central doorway is a pointed arch with hoodmould, bearing the name 'Les Hetres' carved into the stonework. Moulded stonework surrounds the shop fronts, each with a recessed doorway and a pointed-arched upper glazed panel. A wide entry to the right has chamfered panelling to double doors.

The first floor has one canted window and one squared oriel window, each with five lights and mullions and transoms. The jettied second storey features three mullioned and transomed windows. A central gable has paired three-light casement windows with moulded bressumers and decorative timbering in the gable apex. A weather vane tops the gable.

The rear range likely originally housed the main living accommodation for the upper floors. A half-timbered gable projects as a canted oriel to the first floor, with paired three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Above this is a five-light mullioned window with a cambered bressumer. Decorative timberwork is in the apex of the gable. A blocked door once gave access to a first-floor conservatory (now removed), and has been replaced with a window. Stair-windows survive in the rear range, with stained glass depicting knights carrying shields emblazoned with the arms of local families. The interior has not been inspected.

The house is believed to have been built for a member of the Sleigh family and was clearly intended to include retail premises from the outset.