37 and 39 London Street

The building comprises a pair of townhouses on London Street, constructed in the mid- to late 18th century, with number 39 incorporating elements of an earlier structure. During the early 19th century, the ground floor of both properties was converted for commercial use, with a subsequent late 20th-century rebuild. The upper floors were later adapted for office use during the late 20th century.

Number 37 is built of red brick with a plain tile roof, while number 39 utilizes silver-grey brick with red brick dressings, also topped with a plain tile roof. Both buildings share a shopfront dating back to the 1960s, featuring brown brick stall risers and timber-framed glazing.

Number 37 is three storeys high, arranged over three bays facing London Street, and topped with a pitched roof, with a hipped roof to the rear range to the east. The first and second floors are of red brick laid in a header bond, each featuring three, six-over-six timber sash windows recessed into the brickwork and finished with segmental arches. A brick plat band sits between the upper floors, and a painted dentil cornice, possibly of stucco, extends above the second-floor windows. Above the cornice is a stone-coped brick parapet. A historic cast iron downpipe and hopper is positioned at the northern end of the front elevation, accompanied by three square metal pattress plates, one on the first floor and two on the second. The rear elevation’s 18th-century front range is largely hidden by a later extension, although a hipped dormer is visible on the northern half. A brick chimney stack rises through the ridge of the rear range, and a single-storey extension with a green roof occupies the entire building plot to the rear (east).

Number 39 mirrors the three-storey, three-bay layout of number 37, sharing the same contemporary shopfront. The first and second floors have three timber sash windows, divided by a brick string, topped with a painted dentil cornice and a brick parapet. The upper floors are of silver-grey brick with red brick window dressings and columns. The window heads have flat arches constructed in gauged brickwork. The first-floor windows are six-over-six, while the second-floor windows are a mix of three-over-six and three-over-nine glazing. A distinctive roof form features three parallel pitches running north-south, creating two valleys and hipped elements at each end of the valleys. One roof slope extends as far as the first floor and includes a hipped dormer. A long, three-storey, 20th-century extension, rendered externally and with a flat roof, stands to the rear (east), alongside a single-storey brick building with a slate roof, likely dating from the late 19th or early 20th century.