2-10, FORE STREET

This is a row of early 19th-century houses and shops, with alterations from the late 19th century. The front is stuccoed over brickwork, with brickwork visible at the rear in English bond. The roofs are slate, behind a deep moulded cornice, and there are brick chimneys.

The six-bay facade is slightly curved to follow the street. The first floor has six recessed 12-pane sash windows, spaced in a pattern of 3:1:2, with decorative stucco bands marking the first and second floor levels. The ground floor has an elaborate mid-19th century shop window on the left, and a central recessed entrance with a pair of three-quarter glazed six-panel doors, topped by a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and glazed side lights. Slim pilasters flank the entrance and shop windows. The windows are wooden, with panelled stallrisers, and a traceried cast-iron ventilation strip runs across the top of the sidelights and doorway, and above the head of the entrance. A broad fascia has a moulded cornice.

To the right is a late 19th-century shopfront with a recessed glazed door, canted display windows with plate glass in wooden frames, panelled stallrisers, and slim pilasters topped by paired cut consoles, and a fascia with a cornice and blind box.

At the rear, No. 4 has sash windows with Gothic tracery on the ground and first floors. It also has a long landing window. The irregular fenestration of the two and three-storey outshoots includes a Yorkshire sash window on the second floor.

The ground floor on the left has been opened out to create a restaurant.