Number 6 And Attached Railings

Number 6 is an attached house that has been converted into offices. It was built around 1665 and refronted around 1720. The building features a timber frame with a front made of red brick and limestone dressings, topped with a pantile double-pile roof that is hipped at the front and gabled at the rear, along with a rear stair tower. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in an early Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with an attic and basement, and a six-window range.

The front of the building is regular, with rusticated pilaster strips, string courses on each floor, and moulded coping. The doorway, located to the right of centre, has a moulded frame, a four-pane overlight, and a six-panel door, which is topped by a shell hood supported by carved acanthus brackets. The lintels feature five incised voussoirs above the nine-over-nine pane sashes set in flush frames with thick bars, and there are two hipped dormers with six-over-six pane sashes. There are steps leading down to a basement doorway on the left side.

Inside, the ground floor has good 18th-century panelling, with an earlier style in the right-hand room that includes a continuous overmantel and fire surround, along with flanking cupboards. The left-hand room features raised panels and an early 18th-century safe, as well as a mid-18th-century Adamesque fire surround. The central hall has chamfered beams with bar stops, and there is a central rear open-well 17th-century staircase in its own stair tower, which has an uncut string, turned balusters, and square newels. The staircase has been rebuilt to the upper floors and features panelled, ramped 18th-century wainscot. The attic contains collar beam trusses.

The building also has attached cast-iron railings in the basement area that curve up to the doorway. The original gables were cut back to form hips when the building was refronted, likely resembling those on the neighbouring Nos 7 and 8 King Street. The 18th-century front shows stylistic connections with contemporary houses in Dowry Square.