32, 34 AND 36, ST PETER STREET

32, 34, and 36 St Peter Street is a house that is believed to have been divided into three cottages in the 1950s, with No. 32 now used as an office. The building dates from the 1720s or earlier. It features smooth-plastered mass wall construction on the ground floor front, with a thinner front wall on No. 32. The left gable end has been rebuilt in brick. The roof is slate, with natural slate on No. 32. The left end stack has been dismantled, while the rear right lateral stack has a brick shaft and a crested pot. No. 32 has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The plan consists of a single depth main range that is two rooms wide, formerly extended further to the left, with a small courtyard at the rear. The exterior is two storeys high with a basement and has an asymmetrical three-window front with an eaves cornice. There is an approximately central front door with upper glazed panels and an overlight. No. 34, located to the right of centre, features a 20th-century six-panel door with fielded panels and a tripartite sash window alongside, which has a 12-pane light in the centre and four-pane outer lights. No. 32, to the right, has a former shop front with a cornice, a 20th-century timber and glazed door with an older pilastered doorcase, and a tripartite horned sash shop window with a four-pane central light and outer two-pane lights.

Inside, No. 32 retains 18th-century two-panel doors and a small cast-iron 19th-century grate with a timber chimney-piece on the first floor. The roof has considerable timber replacement and is of collar rafter design with nailed collars and butt purlins. The trusses show carpenter's assembly marks and some evidence of charring. No. 36 has a boxed-in crossbeam, and there may be other features of interest concealed by later wall plaster.