14, Clare Street

No. 14 Clare Street is a terrace of two houses, now used as offices, built in the late 18th century, possibly by Thomas Paty. The building was altered in the early 19th century and features a render over limestone ashlar with a hipped pantile mansard roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the late Georgian style, standing three storeys high with an attic and an eight-window range.

The angled corner site has a window arrangement of 3:2:1:2, with the doorway located in the one-window corner. The entrance includes a 20th-century plate-glass shop front clad in marble, with pilasters above leading to a cornice that breaks forward over them, topped by a parapet. There is a first-floor sill band on the two right-hand sections, with architraves above horned 6/6-pane sash windows. The left side features windows with five stepped voussoirs, two of which are blind on the first floor, and two small 6/6-pane second-floor sashes in flush frames. A segmental-arched opening is present in the basement.

Inside, the building has been largely remodelled in the late 20th century, but retains a 19th-century cast-iron open-well winder stair from the ground floor, which has decorative foliate balusters and a newel. The building may have originally been part of a terrace with Nos. 10 and 12, reflecting the style of Paty seen in Bath Street.