22-26, BROAD STREET

A terrace of four houses, now offices and a restaurant, was built around 1770, with later shop fronts dating to the late 19th century and the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick with limestone dressings; the ground floors of numbers 23 and 25 are limestone ashlar, while number 26 has granite dressings. The terrace has party wall stacks and a roof that is not visible. The design is based on a double-depth plan, with number 24 located to the rear of number 32.

The terrace has three storeys, an attic and a basement, and generally two windows wide, with number 23 having one window. The facade is articulated by pilasters above the ground floor to a cornice which is set forward over the pilasters. A flush sill band is prominent on the first floor, and a stepped parapet runs along the roofline, rising to a higher level at number 23.

The ground floor shop fronts vary. Number 23 has a 19th-century shop front with pilasters leading to paired consoles and a cornice. It has 20th-century windows with glazing bars and a right-hand door. To the right is an 18th-century semicircular arched doorway with a batswing fanlight, leading to a six-panel door. Numbers 23 and 25 both feature 20th-century ashlar ground floors with right-hand semicircular arched doorways; the right-hand doorway is open and provides access to an alleyway leading to number 24, while the left-hand doorway at number 23 has a plate-glass door. The stepped voussoirs of the semicircular arch are five in number. Upper floor windows are largely 6/6-pane sashes with horns in numbers 23 and 25, and 3/6-pane sashes on the second floor. A wide 20th-century dormer spans numbers 23 and 25. Number 26 has a well-preserved late 19th-century shop front with three sections, featuring granite square columns, banded antae, a fascia with a cornice of palmettes and a segmental arched central section, as well as a right-hand doorway. A semicircular-arched alleyway leads to number 26 and has a studded 17th-century door.

Internally, numbers 22-25 have been combined into one office. A lateral dogleg staircase is located centrally, with a 20th-century timber design on the ground floor of number 25, featuring an uncut string, stick balusters and column newels, as well as ramped handrails. The front rooms on the first floor have Adam-style fire surrounds with pastoral scenes and rocaille detailing, along with cast-iron hob grates. At the rear, in number 24, a good early 17th-century stone fire surround exists with a Tudor arch, cornice, shield and paterae. Number 26 also has a central lateral dogleg staircase with flying landings above a central light well.