1 and 2 St Paul's Square

Timber-framed house built around 1460, extended and remodelled in 1764, and further extended in the C19, and a pair of houses built in the late C18, remodelled and extended in the C19, all converted to apartments around 2015.

MATERIALS: the roofs are covered in Welsh slate; the walls are constructed of red brick or gault brick, and the front elevations are stuccoed.

PLAN: the buildings are each rectangular on plan, facing north onto St Paul’s Square, with rectangular-plan extensions to the rear (south).

EXTERIOR: 1 St Paul’s Square is a symmetrical five-bay three-storey former house, built around 1460, extended and remodelled in 1764, further extended in the C19, and converted to flats around 2015. The steep pitched roof has a Welsh slate covering, a red brick chimneystack on the east end of the ridge, and a deep eaves cornice supported by modillion brackets. The brick walls are stuccoed, with flush flat-arched window surrounds containing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. The central doorway has an early-C19 surround featuring an entablature with egg-and-dart and paterae ornamentation to its frieze and Doric pilasters with paterae to their frieze. A panelled architrave contains a four-panel door with a margin of paterae and a rectangular overlight with lozenge tracery. Either side of the doorway, the front elevation has pointed railings on a low plinth wall, erected around 2015.

To the right (west) of number 1, is a three-storey 5-window pair of houses (formerly known as numbers 2 and 3, latterly known as number 1A, now containing flats numbers 1C, 2 and 2A-2E). Built in the late C18, they were remodelled and extended in the C19, and converted to apartments around 2015. The pair share a shallow-pitched Welsh slate-covered roof, with two red brick chimneystacks to the ridge. Each building has a bracketed hood to the ground floor, under which the outer bay has a four-panel door with a rectangular overlight, and the inner bay has a canted window. Between the two canted windows is a shared carriageway, flat-arched with double timber plank doors. The pair of buildings feature a variety of timber sash windows without horns.