8 Gun Street

8 Gun Street is an 18th-century house that was converted for commercial use at the ground-floor level by the 1840s.

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

The building has a rectangular plan running south from Gun Street and stands three storeys high and one bay wide under a pitched roof. The ground floor features a modern timber shopfront with a large plate glass window and a glazed door to the west. Above this, the first and second floors each have a single timber sash window set flush with the brickwork. The first-floor window has eight-over-eight glazing with 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 19th century, but the earlier sash boxes have been retained. A renewed three-course cornice in corbelled brickwork runs at the height of the second-floor window head. Between the two windows, there is a raised brick string course, three bricks in depth, extending across most of the frontage.

On the eastern party wall, there are two brick chimney stacks, one rising through the northern roof slope and the other on the roof ridge. The rear elevation is partially hidden by an extension to 7 Gun Street, which is also listed. On the visible part of the rear elevation, there are timber sash windows on the first and second floors that match those on the north elevation, with a corresponding brick string course between the two floors. Additionally, there is a late 20th-century or early 21st-century dormer on the southern roof slope.