4,5, King'S Staithe Square

The properties at Nos. 4 and 5 King's Staithe Square comprise a house (No. 4) and a warehouse (No. 5), dating probably to around 1735 and 1749 respectively. No. 4 was converted to warehouse use in 1749 to serve an adjacent mustard mill, and was later reconverted back into a house in 1968, along with the mill’s conversion to flats.

No. 4 is built of red brick with a slate roof. It has two storeys and a dormer attic. The front features a sliding timber door and a pedestrian entrance to the left, with a window to the right. Above, a central cart loading door is flanked by a single-light window to the left and a plate-glass sash to the right. A timber eaves cornice runs along the top, and a hipped dormer is located in the gabled roof, with a window of uncertain origin. A gable-end stack is on the right (south) side, which was adapted and enlarged to accommodate the adjacent mill.

No. 5, situated on a corner site with a south return in King's Staithe Lane, has a pantile roof. It is three storeys high and has two or three windows to each floor under segmental arches, now fitted with late 20th-century louvred glazing. One window has been inserted, cutting into the platband at first floor. The platband continues to the west side. A late 20th-century doorway is present. The building features a brick modillion and saw-tooth eaves cornice. The south-west corner is articulated by a gault-brick inverted pendentive extending to the middle of the first floor. The west front has four bays, three storeys high, including one bay of blind windows and the remainder featuring late 20th-century windows under segmental arches. A large brick niche with a hemispherical dome is situated at the south end of the west front, on the ground floor. The roof is hipped, but only half-hipped to the north, with one hipped dormer on each of the south and east roof slopes.