7 Gun Street

Originally part of a larger house of the late C18 or early C19, extended to the rear in the 1950s or 1960s. Commercial use on the ground floor.

MATERIALS: silver grey brick laid in header bond with red brick dressings and a plain tile roof to the northern (front) roof slope. The (later) rear elevation is of red brick laid in stretcher bond.

PLAN: the building has three storeys and is one bay wide. The front roof slope is pitched and to the rear, the roof has been lifted behind the ridge to form a flat roof. The later rear extension is full height, flat-roofed and of roughly equal size to the front range. It runs south from the rear elevation, offset to the east.

EXTERIOR: the ground floor has a C21 shopfront. The first and second floors each have a single timber sash window with two-over-two glazing, the sash boxes set flush to the brickwork. The windows have flat-arches in gauged red brick, and red brick dressings which run the full two storeys. At the eaves is a late-C20 cornice of corbelled brickwork. A brick chimney stack rises through the northern roof pitch on the eastern party wall.

To the rear is the late-C20 extension, possibly renewed or rebuilt in the early 2000s. There is a timber sash window on each floor. An additional single-storey extension under a monopitch roof is attached to the south elevation.