44 St James's Parade and 9 Lower Borough Walls

This is a late 18th-century house with a shop, likely designed by John Palmer around 1785. It is situated on St James's Parade and Lower Borough Walls. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar with a double Roman tile roof. Its plan is notable for its wide frontage and a trapezoidal shape due to an acute angled site boundary on the right side, capped by a mansard roof.

The exterior is three storeys with an attic and basement, featuring two windows. The windows are plain sash, with paired and single twelve-pane dormers above. The first and second floors have triple and paired lights respectively, each with a blind light to the paired windows, all set within moulded architraves. A moulded cornice drip is present on the first floor, mirrored as an archivolt above the central arched light of a Palladian window, which also includes brackets beneath the sill. A recessed entrance is centrally located on the ground floor, accessible by a single step and housed within a three-quarter column doorcase with an enriched frieze depicting swags and urns in low relief. The ground floor also features contemporary multi-pane display windows on either side of the entrance. Other external details include a small plinth, a deep platband above the ground floor, a modillion cornice with a blocking course, and a large chimney on the left party wall. The rear is faced in painted ashlar.

An interior inspection was not undertaken, but previous records indicate a marble fireplace and a cornice in the front ground floor room.

St James's Parade, originally Thomas Street, was developed from 1765 by Richard Jones, Thomas Jelly, and Henry Fisher, who were granted permission to demolish the Borough Walls. The street was initially closed off with bollards and featured a paved walkway replacing the road, with elevations influenced by the work of John Wood the Younger. Although the houses were mainly built around 1768, this particular building represents a later development within that streetscape. Following bomb damage and redevelopment in the area, the parade was preserved.