13 and 14 Gun Street

Pair of houses, probably C18, combined by about 1879 and converted to commercial use.

MATERIALS: stuccoed frontage to Gun Street above a timber shopfront. The rear elevation of number 13 (to the west) is rendered. The roof covering is a mixture of plain tile and slate.

The outbuildings to the rear are of red brick laid in Flemish bond with plain-tiled roofs.

PLAN: the building is two storeys high with roofs set behind a parapet. Number 13 (to the west) has an attic storey under a mansard roof. Number 14 (to the east) has a lower, hipped roof. There are two chimney stacks in the party wall between numbers 13 and 14.

EXTERIOR: the ground-floor shopfront has a central recessed doorway with modern glazed doors, flanked by large plate-glass shop windows with slender timber mullions and low stall risers. Console brackets support a narrow projecting cornice over a long fascia board. To the west is a six-panelled door with a painted-over rectangular fanlight.

The first floor has two, one-over-one, timber sash windows with stucco architraves; above is a stucco parapet cornice.

A flat-roofed, two-storey block connects the rear of the buildings to the later outbuildings. The outbuildings are of two storeys under hipped roofs with roof lights.