10 Gun Street

Townhouse, about 1700. In commercial use on the ground floor by the 1840s.

MATERIALS: the principal elevation is of brick laid in Flemish bond with silver grey headers and red stretchers. Shopfronts, windows, door and doorcase are timber. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The rear elevation is partly cement-rendered and partly of exposed red brickwork.

PLAN: the building is three storeys high, plus basement. It is four bays wide with a pitched, gable-ended roof running parallel to Gun Street. To the rear is a projecting stair tower, offset from the centre of the elevation to the west, and a truncated stack along the west party wall.

EXTERIOR: the building’s entrance is off-centre to the east; the doorcase has fielded pilasters with moulded corbel brackets supporting an open pediment hood. The half-glazed door is later. To the west is an altered C19 projecting shop window, square in plan, with glazing bars to the window and a brick base. The window is flanked by short stretches of low cast-iron railings with spearhead finials.

To the east is a smaller C19 shop window, flush to the elevation. It has mullions and a transom with a narrow fascia and cornice above. The window is enclosed by cast-iron railings with spearhead finials.

The first and second floors are arranged with a two-two rhythm. The windows are two-over-two sashes with exposed boxes and flat gauged brick arches. There is a stucco plat band above the first floor and a timber or stucco eaves cornice.

To the rear, there is an irregular arrangement of windows. The stair tower rises to the attic level and has a flat roof.

INTERIOR: it is understood that there is dado panelling with bolection mouldings and an open-well staircase of the late C17 or early C18. The stair has turned balusters, closed string, square newels and moulded handrail.