Eastgate House

Eastgate House is a house that has been divided into sheltered flats. It has a core dating from the 17th century, with an early 19th-century front, and was extensively modernised in the late 1980s. The building features part timber framing and rendering, topped with an old plaintiled roof. The main range is fronted in white brick and has a hipped slate roof, wide eaves cornice, and paired mutule soffit.

The exterior consists of a part 2-storey and part 3-storey structure set sideways to the street. The 3-storey section has three windows on each storey, arranged in a 1:1:1 pattern, with the centre slightly projecting. All windows are sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills; the first storey has 12-pane sashes, the ground storey has deeper 12-pane sashes reaching to ground level, and the second storey has 6-pane sashes with vertical glazing bars only. A raised stone band runs at sill level below the first storey windows. The central entrance features columns in antis and a segmental fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, with a door that has six raised fielded panels.

The north side of the house is directly on the street and is rendered, featuring a single sash window on both the ground and first storeys. The upper storey has a 12-pane sash, while the lower storey has a 16-pane sash, both in flush cased frames. A plaque on this side commemorates Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons, who was born in 1677 and died in 1746. The 2-storey range to the south is also rendered and has three irregularly spaced sash windows on the first storey: two are 16-pane and one is 12-pane, all in flush cased frames. The ground storey has a deeper 12-pane sash in a cased frame with slight reveals, and to the right, there is a 6-panel door with the top two panels glazed, framed in a moulded and eared architrave.

Inside, few features from before the early 19th century remain. The entire range was originally timber-framed, and the line of the original wallplate in the brick-fronted section is just below the tops of the first storey windows.