7-17, Minster Street

This is a group of houses dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with possible earlier origins, and which have undergone significant alterations to their frontages along Minster Street. Number 7 has a late 19th-century front, three storeys with the second floor oversailing, tile hanging to the gable, and bargeboards. It features two windows with first-floor canted bays. A modern shop front sits on the ground floor, and the rear elevation is gabled and tile hung with early casement windows.

Number 9 displays a late 18th- to early 19th-century front, which has been altered and modernised. It is two storeys with an attic and has an old tile roof with two hipped dormers. Applied timber framing is visible on the first floor, and there are two windows partially obscured by a late 19th-century shop front fascia. The earlier rear elevation is gabled and tile hung.

Number 11 presents an early 19th-century front, and is four storeys with the third floor timber-framed and faced with mathematical tiles, as is a band between the storeys. The first floor is brick. It has a gabled slate roof and a slate-hung gable end and two windows to the upper floors with flush framed sashes, lacking glazing bars. A modern shop front occupies the ground floor, and the earlier gabled, tile-hung rear elevation remains.

Number 13 has an early 19th-century red brick front with stucco window arches, and a half-hipped slate roof with a band eaves cornice. It features two tall dormers with moulded frames and two windows to the upper floors with 19th-century sashes. A modern shop front is on the ground floor, and the earlier gabled, tile-hung rear elevation is visible.

Number 15 has an 18th- to early 19th-century front, with a tile-hung first floor and moulded wood coping. It has two reeded frame sashes with glazing bars and a modern shop front on the ground floor. The earlier gabled and tile-hung rear elevation is also present.

Finally, Number 17 has a circa 1900 front, gabled and tile hung, featuring superimposed bay windows with an overhanging second floor and a linked cornice. It also has a modern shop front. The rear elevation is red brick with sash windows, dating back to the 18th century.

Numbers 1 to 17 (odd) form a group with Number 36 Silver Street. The rear elevations form a group with the rear elevations of Numbers 36 to 52 (even) Silver Street and St Thomas’s Church, St Thomas’s Square.