Nos 20 And 22 Including Courtyard To Rear

Nos 20 and 22, including the courtyard to the rear, are mid-18th century buildings. No 20 was constructed between 1764 and 1765 by Samuel Gundry, a tallow chandler, who used No 22 as his warehouse at that time. No 22 was previously the residence of the Reverend Thomas Collins, a Unitarian minister. The buildings are made of red brick and feature pitched slate roofs with coped gable ends. No 22 has contemporary brick stacks. They stand three storeys tall with attics, and have wooden console-shaped modillions at the eaves. Each building has three ranges of sash windows with keystones and glazing bars, except for the second floor of No 22, which has casements. The central first-floor window of No 22 is a slightly lower, segment-headed casement with a uniquely shaped fascia board above it. The modern shop fronts are present at street level. There is a three-centred arch with a keystone leading to the central carriage entrance of a former tannery building behind, with spur stones beneath the arch and a cobbled courtyard extending to the rear. The rear of No 20 is red brick and features a three-storey extension with a brick modillion eaves cornice and coped gable ends. It has one range of sash windows with glazing bars, one range of fixed windows (including tripartite sashes with glazing bars on the ground floor), a planked loading door on the first floor, and another planked door below it, along with three more fixed windows on the ground floor and one more casement on the second floor. The rear of No 22 is partly rendered and partly colour-washed brick, with a three-storey extension that also has a brick modillion eaves cornice and a coped gable end. The north elevation features one range of segment-headed fixed windows, with another on the ground floor. Nos 16 to 26 (even) form a group with all the tannery buildings.