33, 34 AND 35, WESTGATE STREET

33, 34, and 35 Westgate Street are three houses in a row that include shops, dating from around 1820, although their fronts have been reconstructed. The buildings are made of ashlar stone, with roofs that are not visible.

They rise three storeys and an attic, featuring a seven-window front to the street, plus one window on the splay. All windows are sash types set in plain reveals. No. 33 has a blind light between two six-pane windows above three four-pane windows on the second floor and a twelve-pane window on the first. No. 34 has two six-pane windows in the attic and second floors above a deep four-pane window on the first floor. Both No. 33 and No. 34 have a continuous shopfront that dates from 1934. No. 35 features two four-pane windows at the upper levels, with plain plate glass sashes on the first floor, and a modern shopfront of no particular interest that returns to Parsonage Lane.

Architectural details include lintels with friezes and cornices, a blocking course above the second floor with a cornice, and a parapet at the attic level, all returning to the right. The return to Parsonage Lane shows various elements indicating a Late Victorian period of embellishment rather than the preservation of much earlier fabric. This includes a pair of arched lights with responds and moulded archivolts, a central panelled mullion, and a broad surround with panelled friezes and a cornice. Above these is a panel with inset corners featuring egg-and-dart moulding and two putti supporting a wreath with a shield, all crafted in good ashlar. Additionally, there is a door surround with an eared architrave resting on splayed feet, decorated with egg-and-dart and a keystone, and a lofty former window that incorporates a door, also with an architrave and egg-and-dart, topped with a straight cornice. This lower section has a roof covered with double Roman tiles. The interior was not inspected, but the ground floors have been thoroughly altered.