11 and 12 Gun Street

An early-C19 house or pair of houses with modern shopfront, now arranged as apartments.

MATERIALS: constructed of red brick, under a slate roof.

PLAN: entered off the street into a shop to the right side and a door on the left side, giving access to apartments within and to the rear.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys plus basement, across three bays and the brick walls are laid in Flemish bond. The ground floor has been partially rebuilt and has a modern plate glass shopfront and a C20, inset doorway under a segmental arch. Above and between the left and central bays, there is a series of shallow, brick piers and brackets, which carry three courses of corbelled brickwork.

The first and second floors each have three recessed window openings with flat-arch window heads in gauged brickwork and stucco cills. All have uPVC casements resembling six over six sash windows. Above the second-floor windows, there is a stucco cornice and a parapet which appears to be coped in lead.

The side and rear walls have been rebuilt in red brick laid in header bond. The rear elevation has a single window to the first and second floors.

The roof is M-shaped, with two hipped slopes forming a central valley running perpendicular to Gun Street.