4 And 5, Southgate Street

4 and 5 Southgate Street are a pair of houses, originally part of a terrace of three, dating from the early 19th century but with a 16th-century timber core. The front is made of white brick, while the north gable wall is rendered. The roofs are covered with slate, with asbestos slates on the rear slope.

The buildings are two storeys high and feature a five-window range. The upper storey has 12-pane sash windows set in plain reveals, with flat gauged arches and stone sills. On the ground floor, No. 4 has a larger 20-pane sash window, while No. 5 has two 16-pane sashes and one 12-pane sash that replaces the former door of No. 6. There are three doors, one of which is blocked, all with blank fanlights in semicircular-headed brick surrounds.

Inside, there are no cellars. The upper rear room of No. 5 contains a tie-beam and main post in the north end wall, with a housing for a missing wallplate. Although the rear wall has been raised, the tops of the upper windows align with the earlier wallplate. In the early 19th century, the front of the timber frame was removed, and the house was built forward. A passageway between Nos 4 and 5 features a ceiling beam, which appears to be a trimmer, with double ogee-moulding, suggesting that the original house had a moulded ceiling and was likely jettied.