Robertsons The Eyegate Bookshop

Robertsons The Eyegate Bookshop is a pair of shops that were originally one building, dating from the early to mid 17th century. The structure has been altered and extended at the rear. It features a timber frame that is rendered, with brick gable walls on the left and timber frame cladding, topped with asbestos tile roofs. There is a central 19th-century axial stack. The building has a T plan, with two storeys and a rear extension.

On the ground floor, there are shop windows on the left and right, each with a single central vertical glazing bar. The doors are angled on either side of a through passage beneath the stack. The first floor has a 9-pane sash window on the left and a similar sash window on the right, along with a smaller central light, both partially obscured by the shop front fascia. A modillion cornice runs along the top.

Inside No 102, the ground floor is covered, but the first floor appears to retain the original timber frame at the front and rear, which is boarded or covered, with fragments of fielded panelling reset against the stack. The roof is likely original. In No 104, some of the frame is exposed with original wattle infill. It features chamfered beams and joists with lambs tongue stops, although some have been reordered. The first floor front has two 2-light ovolo mullioned windows, one on each side of a former larger window that now contains a 20th-century sash. The original stack on the ground floor has a quarter-moulded stop chamfered bressumer.