Nos. 6 And 7 With Railings

A pair of early 18th-century houses, refronted in the late 18th or early 19th century, located on the north side of Trim Street. Thomas Greenway has been suggested as the architect of the later alterations. The houses are built of fine limestone ashlar, with a slate roof.

The exterior presents a broad front with wide-spaced windows, all with sash glazing in plain reveals. An entrance is located at each end of the building, with an additional doorway positioned off-centre to the left. The houses have a deep mansard roof. They extend over three storeys, plus an attic and basement. Wide 20th-century three-light dormers are positioned above ten/ten-pane windows on the first and second floors, incorporating balconettes to the left. The ground floor has eight/eight-pane sashes, with a pair of panelled doors with a margin pane transom light, set in a deep reveal and approached by four steps to a wide landing on the left. A smaller six-panel door, also deep-set with steps, is centrally located, and another door with a transom light is situated at pavement level, providing access to a through-way on the right. The basement contains a door and a pair of twelve-pane sashes. The ground floor and basement are painted, including a deep platband above the plain walling, surmounted by a modillion cornice with a blocking course and a parapet. A lofty central ashlar stack is set forward.

An interior inspection has not been carried out. Photographs from 1981 held within the National Monuments Record reveal that a first-floor front room in No. 6 features a bolection moulded fireplace, a modillion cornice, and shutter boxes supported by squat pilasters. The remaining interior was largely altered. Further photographs from 1981 show a wooden staircase in No. 7 with a columnar newel and turned column and baluster rails, a moulded dado rail rising the full height, a modillion cornice to the entrance passage, a moulded dado, and an arch on consoles leading through to the stairwell. A first-floor front room has a moulded stone fireplace surround and panelling to dado level, while a rear room retains only the modillion cornice.

The basement areas are enclosed by simple railings set on a stone curb and returning to the doorways.

Trim Street was laid out in 1707 on land owned by George Trim, representing a significant enlargement of the city beyond its medieval walls. The street retains its flagged pavements and sett-covered roadway.