64 and 65 Load Street

Nos. 64 and 65 Load Street are two houses, now used as a restaurant, shop, and flats. They were originally built in the early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century and some in the late 20th century. The houses are of brick construction with a machine tile roof and gable end stacks. They are three storeys high, with a stone coped parapet and stone quoins. There are six windows on the front elevation, featuring boxed glazing bar sashes under rubbed brick heads with fluted stone keystones. The windows on the second floor are similar, but shorter, and have scrolled keystones. The ground floor has a central passageway with a segmental head and fluted keystone. Entrance to the flats is off this passageway. To the left of the passageway is a mid-20th century entrance, and to the right, a radially glazed fanlight above a door with six raised and fielded panels. On the left side of the front is a rusticated pilaster with scroll brackets supporting a dentilled stone cornice; this is flanked by two two-pane shop windows and a recessed entrance with a 20th-century glazed door. To the right side is a pilastered shop front with a dentilled wooden cornice, a plate glass shop window, and an entrance with a two-pane overlight and a half-glazed door.