5 AND 5A, EAST STREET (See details for further address information)

Nos. 5 and 5A East Street is a house with a shop located on a corner site, also returning to 1B St Alban Street. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century and features painted brickwork and tiled mansard roofs. The main elevation facing St Alban Street has a broad return gable and a slightly lower continuous mansard-roofed range in East Street.

The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement. The front has two windows, featuring early 6-pane sash raking dormers above a 12-pane sash in a flush moulded box and an 8:12:8-pane bold canted oriel window, which has a panelled skirt and flat base, topped with a moulded entablature. The ground floor includes a 12-pane sash window above a light at pavement level, and a shop front with modified bows leading to a central door on four concrete steps. This is topped by a transom and flat arched radial fanlight, set in pilastered reveals and flanked by fluted pilasters. The shop front overlays an earlier version, with a full-width dentiled cornice that is cut off at the bows, supported by five narrow fluted Doric pilasters on very high pedestals and a plinth. There is a stack on each gable.

The return frontage has a plain gable with a small basement light featuring brick voussoirs. To the right, there is a 12-pane sash window in a flush moulded box, above a 6-panel door with a deep square transom light, set in deep reveals on three stone steps and framed by a moulded architrave. No. 5A continues to the right, featuring a 6-pane sash raking dormer above a 12-pane sash in a moulded box, along with a 19th-century shop front that has a fascia and consoles, with a central glazed door set back in deep returns. The interior has not been inspected.