19, The Foregate

This is a three-storey house, dating from around 1700, which has been altered in the 1930s and has a shop front dating to the 1980s. It is now used as a restaurant and offices. The exterior is stucco over brick, with a plain tile roof that is hipped at the right side. Decorative stucco details include fluted Doric pilasters running through the first and second floors, topped by a pulvinated frieze and a shaped cornice. Six armorial shields, likely dating from the 1930s, are set between the ground and first floors, and two are on the first floor. The windows are 6/6 sash windows in near-flush frames, with many retaining thick, ovolo-moulded glazing bars. The ground floor has a renewed shop front and a central doorway.

Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase with a closed string, open newel, shaped handrail, and rod-on-bobbin balusters; it also has a panelled dado. Stained glass depicting portrait heads is in the staircase window. Decorative plasterwork from the 1930s is found in the lanterns of the ground-floor restaurant and on the upper floors. A frieze with a rope moulding and central plaster roses decorate the landing. The first floor features axial beams, some embellished with a grape frieze plaster decoration, alongside cornices with foliate mouldings and central ceiling roses. Further decorative plasterwork includes panels depicting fleurs-de-lys, ships, lozenges, oak eaves, dragons, and knights. A stone fireplace, in a Tudor style, is in the front right room, featuring a plaster panel showing Queen Elizabeth I waving as two ships depart a harbour. The windows have rope-moulded surrounds.

A historical note mentions that this house forms a group with numbers 1-6 and 57-66 Foregate Street. A conservatory with moulded panels to the skylights is located at the rear, incorporated into the ground floor.