16, Westgate Street

No. 16 Westgate Street is a house with a shop located at the end of a row, dating from the early 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier interior elements. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar with rubble rear walls and features a slate roof.

It stands four storeys high and is three windows wide, with all windows being glazing bar sashes. The upper two floors have twelve-pane windows (the centre window on the top floor is blind) set in raised plat surrounds, above a deep eighteen-pane window, and there is a poor 20th-century shopfront. The right-hand quoin is channelled for its full height, and there is a moulded cornice above the second floor, along with a cavetto parapet mould above the attic floor. A stack is located to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this property has lost much of its original detail on the lower two floors. It appears to have been built at the same time as the adjoining houses to the north, starting from No. 12A, and thus contributes to a notable row of early 18th-century fronts in the Baroque style. An early photograph from 1900 shows that the front was once very similar to that of Nos. 14-15.