6-9, Cornmarket

The building at 6-9 Cornmarket comprises four houses, with origins in the 16th century, and subsequent additions and alterations including a front elevation dating to approximately 1735 on the right-hand side, and an early 20th-century shop front on the ground floor, with a probable reproduction facade to the left. The left-hand section is built of pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond, while the right-hand section uses pinkish-brown brick, also in Flemish bond. The building features stucco keystones, aprons and pilasters, and flat arches of red gauged brick. The roof is tiled, with a tall brick stack to the right side, featuring an oversailing course and decorative pots.

The left range is three stories high, with seven first-floor windows; the right range is two stories high, with four first-floor windows. The left range has end pilasters extending through the first and second floors, with horizontal rustication. The first and second floors have flush sashes with six panes per sash, flat arches, and central keystones with cornices and moulded sills, consisting of a roll moulding and two steps. The second-floor windows also have fluted, segmental aprons. A crowning moulded cornice tops the building, above a coped parapet. The right range's first floor has flush sashes with six panes per sash, with cambered-arched heads and arches beneath them. The ground floor has a continuous shop front, with end pilasters and festoons between the windows. It also has a frieze and cornice, with plate-glass windows, a frieze with glazing bars, and is canted inward towards a centrally positioned replacement glass door. A further entrance leads to a passage via a plank door on the right.

The interior of the left-hand section contains a curved, narrow, open-well staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. Remnants of a timber post and wall plate are also present, alongside chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The right-hand section retains timber framing, featuring four posts and square panels of timber framing with wattle and daub in the ground-floor transverse passage. The first floor exhibits a jowled post and a second exposed post. Exposed beams are also present, and roof timbers are reported to remain.

Historically, the building functioned as a residence until the early 20th century; it has since been used as a furniture store. The eastern side of the building adjoins a length of the city wall dating to the 14th century, located along City Walls Road.