4, Foregate Street

This is a mid-to-late 18th-century terraced house, subsequently used as a shop and offices, with later additions and alterations including a shopfront dating to circa 1900. The front is constructed of dark red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar dressings and a plain clay tile roof. A brick stack at the left end has an overhanging detail and decorative pots.

The building’s plan incorporates a three-storey front block of single-depth, a two-storey rear left wing with a porch in the angle, and a taller two-storey wing to the right, containing a throughway that runs parallel to the front and encloses a rear courtyard.

The front elevation has three first-floor windows and stucco detailing, including a shopfront at ground level, a frieze, and a cornice. The first and second floors have unequally hung 1/1 sash windows in plain reveals, set beneath segmental arches with raised keystones. Sills are present to the second-floor windows. The shopfront is of tripartite Neo-Baroque design, featuring two entrances (the left-hand one now glazed) with tooled, eared architraves, interrupted by stepped keystones and open segmental pediments containing cartouches. A fanlight sits above the entrance on the right. The central, segmental-arched window has Gibbs-style jambs with egg-and-dart and modillion moulding to the arch soffit, interrupted by a stepped keystone, which raises to support a continuous cornice bowed to the centre. Carved cartouches and fronds are below the bow, and the tripartite window incorporates turned timber mullions and transom, with a renewed panelled stall riser. A tiled passage on the right leads to the rear, with a part-glazed door and sidelights serving the shop; a further round arched opening to the left accesses the upper floors. The rear of No. 4 retains cambered arch openings. The two-storey service range to the rear left has early 19th-century 10/10 and 8/8 sash windows, while the ground floor features three later 19th-century 2/1 sashes with etched glass. A four-panel door with a moulded surround and keystone inscribed "F. C. & Co." is also present. The mid-19th-century block has horned plate-glass sashes.

The interior was not inspected, but it was noted that a panelled beam supported on corbel brackets has been retained.

The building forms a group with numbers 2-6 and 63-66.