10, Littlegate Street

LITTLEGATE STREET 1. 1485 No 10 SP 5105 NW 12/560 12.1.54. II 2. House. Dated 1647 above door. 2-storeyed rubble with modern machine-made tiled roof. 3-light casement windows (some altered) with remains of stone drip moulds in places. On the east front is a 3-storeyed projecting porch with an outer 4-centre-headed stone doorway with a defaced panel above it. Above the doorway within the porch is the date 1647 and it has moulded wood jambs and a 4-centre-headed arch in a square head with shields in the spandrels. On the west side are 2 projecting cement-faced stacks with brick shafts. An 1821 drawing by Buckler shows that in the West side was a pointed medieval arched doorway, this, one of the original gateways to the Blackfriars with its postern, was re-discovered during the recent restoration. 1967-8.

Listing NGR: SP5120605830