8, 9 And 10, Westgate Street

Three terrace houses with shops, built in the early 19th century, with 20th-century additions. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar, with a visible roofline. The three houses are four storeys high, and each has a tripartite window on every floor, with variations at attic height.

No. 8 has four small twelve-pane windows above an eight:twelve:eight-pane window, with a similar window on the first floor, the middle sash being without bars. It has an 1837 pilaster shopfront with two doors and a single bay return to the left, featuring a design of two and three panes. No. 9 has an attic storey with small paired twelve-pane windows and smaller eight-pane windows added later, above eight:twelve:eight-pane windows on the lower floors. The shopfront is similar to No. 8 but with broader panes and a door to the shop on the left. An extension of the same style was added in 1988 by Graham Finch. No. 10 has paired plain sashes to the attic and tripartite plain sashes to the lower levels, and a poor 20th-century shopfront.

Windows on the first and second floors have raised plat surrounds, doubled at the mullions, set to a common sill, but at the first floor to separate sills. The mullion and architrave lines are carried down to the cornice level of the shopfronts, with a straight moulded cornice on brackets. The left-hand end has a broad quoin pilaster, although this is not repeated at the other end. Above the second floor is a moulded cornice, with a further cavetto cornice and a blocking course with a parapet to the attic level. There are two ashlar stacks. The rear elevation is also in ashlar, with a small cavetto cornice to a rebuilt blocking course and parapet. No. 8 has a slightly projecting stair turret with twelve-pane sashes at each level and a deep eighteen-pane sash to the staircase. Nos. 9 and 10 are slightly deeper, with glazing bar sashes to No. 9 and plain sashes to No. 10, each also with inserted smaller lights. Ground floor levels have various 20th-century extensions. The interiors have not been inspected. The buildings represent a handsome rebuilding of a long-established street, employing a style influenced by Greek Revival architecture.