7 and 9, Museum Street

These are a pair of houses dating from the 18th century, with later 19th and 20th-century alterations and rear extensions. The houses are timber-framed, with plaster and brickwork, and have peg-tiled and slate roofs, with red brick stacks. They have a rectangular plan.

The front, which faces west, has three windows on No.7 (to the south) arranged in a 3-window range. All the windows are 20th-century sliding sashes: the ground floor windows have 4 panes wide by 4 panes high, and the first floor windows have 4 panes wide by 3 panes high. The central doorway to No.7 has a simple 19th-century flat cornice hood, plain jambs and frieze, and a 4-panelled door. No.9 (to the north) is slightly taller, with a 2-window range. The windows here are all 18th-century sliding sashes, 4 panes wide by 3 panes high. The central doorway has a weathering board that lines up with the windows on either side, and a 20th-century door with upper glazing consisting of 2 panes wide by 3 panes high, and a lower panel. A ridge stack is located at the north end.

The rear, which faces east, has full-height 2-storey brick extensions with plastered timber-framing above, refurbished in the 20th century. No.7 has two large lateral stacks between the extension and the original house. The ground floor of No.7 has a porch parallel with the main house, and a long sliding sash window with 4 panes wide by 8 panes high. The first floor has three similar sliding sash windows with 4 panes wide by 4 panes high. No.9 has a central doorway on the ground floor with 3 panes wide by 4 panes high upper glazing, a single 2-light casement on each side, one to the north with glazing bars (4 panes wide by 3 panes high). The first floor has a large dropped flat-roofed dormer window with four casement lights and 8 panes wide by 4 panes high. The south-facing side elevation has a red brick front wall framing a slightly exposed section. The rear lean-to has brickwork of a darker hue compared to the front section.