10, Littlegate Street

No. 10 Littlegate Street is a house dated 1647 above the door. It is two storeys high, built of rubble, and has a modern machine-made tiled roof. The house features three-light casement windows, some of which have been altered, with remnants of stone drip moulds in certain areas. On the east front, there is a three-storeyed projecting porch that includes an outer stone doorway with a four-centre-headed arch and a defaced panel above it. The date 1647 is displayed above the doorway within the porch, which has moulded wood jambs and a four-centre-headed arch set in a square head, with shields in the spandrels. On the west side, there are two projecting cement-faced stacks with brick shafts. An 1821 drawing by Buckler indicates that there was originally a pointed medieval arched doorway on the west side, which was one of the original gateways to the Blackfriars. This doorway was rediscovered during recent restoration work in 1967-1968.