55, New King Street

This is a detached terrace house, dating back to approximately 1770, and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally part of a pair, the left half of the house was damaged by bombing and subsequently demolished. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a rendered section marking the former party division, and has a slate roof.

The exterior features three main storeys and an attic, with a double mansard roof that meets at a central valley gutter. It originally had two windows, with the third bay containing blind lights that were once central to the composition. There are two small two-light casement dormers in the attic. The upper floors have twelve-pane sashes, although those on the first floor have been replaced with 20th-century windows. The ground floor has a blind light, an early 20th-century shopfront with slender mullions, and a fine curved glass shopfront with a deep recessed central doorway. To the right of the doorway is a glazed door in deep reveals, topped by a fanlight set within a moulded archway, supported by reeded pilasters with delicate capitals. A deep parapet with coping runs along the top of the facade, with a deep cropped stack on the left end and a tall ashlar stack at the rear left. The right-hand return is plain, and the rear elevation has two dormers with nine-pane sashes above twelve-pane sashes.

The interior of the house has not been inspected. A broad platband runs along the level of the first floor window sills, and a modillion cornice extends to a blocking course and parapet. The ends of the building have coped parapets.