24, 26 AND 28, MIDDLETON STREET

24, 26, and 28 Middleton Street is a range of shops and flats built around 1680, with various alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially to the windows. The building is constructed of brick, rendered, and whitewashed on the facade, topped with a roof of black glazed pantiles. It has two storeys and a dormer attic.

The ground floor features three doorways that define the separate properties. No. 24 has three bays, with a half-glazed door under a flat hood flanked by a 3-light 19th-century cross casement on either side. Above these are two 3-light casements with glazing bars. No. 26 has two bays, with a panelled door surround and a hipped hood supported by a pair of scrolled brackets. The frieze above features plaster decoration with a Vitruvian scroll design. To the left of the door is a 4-light 19th-century cross casement, and above it is a 3-light 18th-century casement similar to those at No. 24. No. 28 has three bays, with a door that has a moulded case and a flat hood, along with a 4-vaned fanlight. There are 19th-century three-light cross casements on both sides of the door, repeated immediately above. The building has a continuous bell-based roof with two gabled dormers, which are lit by 18th-century casements with glazing bars and enhanced with 19th-century decorative bargeboards. A central stack is located on the rear roof slope, while the south gable is shaped to the street and sweeps into an outshut gable at the rear. An internal stack rises from the apex of the roof.

The interior has not been fully inspected, but the ground floor features bridging beams, particularly in the center, with plaster decoration. The remainder of the interior is likely to be of interest.