8 Gun Street

House, constructed in the C18, converted to commercial use at ground-floor level by the 1840s.

MATERIALS: the principal, north elevation is faced in silver grey-brick laid in header bond with red-brick dressings, while the rear elevation is of red brick in Flemish bond. The roof covering is slate, and there is a modern, timber and glass shopfront to the north elevation.

PLAN: the building is laid out on a rectangular plan running south from Gun Street.

EXTERIOR: the building is three storeys in height and one bay wide under a pitched roof. On the ground floor of the principal, north elevation is a modern, timber shopfront with a large, plate glass window and a glazed door to the west. Above, the first and second floors each have a single, timber sash window with sash boxes set flush with the brickwork. The first-floor window has eight-over-eight glazing and a segmental-arched window head while the second-floor window has four-over-eight glazing and a flat-arched window head. The sashes appear to have been replaced in the C19, retaining the earlier sash boxes. There is a renewed, three-course cornice in corbelled brickwork at the height of the second-floor window head. Between the two windows is a raised, brick string course, three bricks in depth, extending across most of the frontage. There are two, brick chimney stacks on the eastern party wall, one rising through the northern roof slope and the other on the roof ridge. The rear elevation is partially concealed by an extension to 7 Gun Street (listed Grade II, National Heritage List for England entry 1321917), to the west. On the visible part of the elevation, there are timber sash windows on the first and second floors which match those on the north elevation of the building, with a corresponding brick string between the two floors. There is a late-C20 or C21 dormer on the southern roof slope.