8, St Andrew Street

No. 8 St Andrew Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with flats above. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with the front roof raised in the early 19th century and shopfronts added in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a Welsh slated roof, with panelled eaves that are canted on flat cut brackets at the front. The rear has an old tiled roof and two tall brick chimneys, one of which is truncated.

The exterior displays a four-bay facade, with the entrance located in the second bay from the left. The ground floor has been opened up, removing the corridor that led to the rear staircase. On the first floor, there are four slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds beneath rubbed red brick flat arches. The second floor features three squat 6-pane sash windows, with a blank wall panel in the second position from the right. The ground floor includes a full-width shopfront, with a closed heavy timber-framed plate glass window on the left, a glazed door in the second bay from the left, and a wide triple light plate glass window on the right. This is all topped by a full-width canted fascia, with blind boxes above and stuccoed stall risers below. The rear elevation is largely blank, featuring a plastered gable stair turret between the two chimneys and a late 19th-century single and two-storey Welsh slated outshoot on the right (west).

Inside, the ground floor has been opened out, with ceiling beams cased and red brick exposed in the end walls. There is exposed timber framing with primary bracing, mortices for missing bracing, and carpenters' marks, along with later brick infill that seems to relate to the adjoining No. 10. A fireplace is located on the rear wall, with the one on the right featuring red brick cheeks and a cavetto moulded timber bressumer with peg holes, which appears to be a reset length of tie beam that was formerly supported by arch braces. There is 20th-century access to the cellar from the rear outshoot, which contains two main rooms with a brick crosswall below the line of the former west wall of the ground floor corridor. The west cellar has a brick floor and walls, substantial timbers with chamfered binders supporting the floors above, arched hearth supports for the ground floor fireplaces, and two substantial brick vaults with segmental arches beyond the east wall. The upper floors and roof have not been inspected.