2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL

A terrace of five houses, now three, was built in the mid-18th century. The front walls are limestone rubble, with No.2 rendered in roughcast, while the others were originally limewashed. The rear walls are of rubble with external side stacks and a stone slate roof. The original layout consisted of single rooms with rear extensions and through-passages with side entrances between pairs of houses.

Each house is two storeys high. Originally a one-window range, Nos. 2 and 8 are now two-window ranges. No.2 has a symmetrical facade with a half-glazed front door framed by a re-used 13th-century plate tracery window head, featuring two trefoil arches and a central quatrefoil. It has 2/2-pane horned sash windows in exposed boxes. No. 8 is also symmetrical, with a 20th-century boarded front door, rendered lintels, and early 19th-century 8/8-pane ground-floor sashes and 4/8-pane first-floor sashes. No. 10 has timber lintels above a boarded front door, and 19th-century casement windows with four horizontal bars per pane. The window jambs are of irregular re-used ashlar. The rear elevation features five external stacks with offsets, water tables at eaves level, 18th-century brick flues (the centre and right-of-centre pairs linked beneath the water tables), a first-floor casement window in No.8, and ground-floor extensions.

Interior details include earlier and reset roof trusses. No.2 retains a flagged former through-passage and a left-hand front winder stair with a stair door. The terrace was carefully planned, incorporating reused features such as morticed lintels to the front.