33-39, GOLD STREET

This is a terrace of four shops with living accommodation above, likely built around the 1850s. The building is constructed of painted brick in a Flemish bond style, with red brick stacks and a natural slate roof, and features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The ground floor has been extensively altered in the 20th century. Numbers 33 and 35 were combined, resulting in the removal of a staircase. Number 33 retains a projecting axial stack. Number 37 was gutted for shop use in the 20th century. A passageway exists between numbers 37 and 39, leading to the rear and "Cooks Court"; number 37 possibly has a flying freehold over this passageway. Numbers 37 and 35 share a rear lateral stack.

The building is two storeys high, with a basement at number 37 and an attic. The five-bay front has good pilastered shop fronts with a continuous fascia on the right side of the passageway, originally representing three separate shops. Paired pilasters define the central shop, and there's a projected, moulded cornice. The shop fronts feature plate-glass windows with moulded sills and timber/cast-iron moulded mullions integrated into the shop doors, which have overlights. The central shop door may be original; it’s half-glazed above a middle rail. The other shop doors are 20th-century replacements. A pilastered entrance with a cornice and steps leading down to "Cooks Court" is located to the left of the centre of the main range.

The main doorway to number 37 is to the left of the building, featuring a pilastered doorcase with a deeply projecting cornice. The panelled door is half-glazed with an overlight. A continuous moulded cornice extends across the shop window and the second door to the right, which has a pilaster on its right side. This second door is a 20th-century replacement, half-glazed with an overlight. A four-light shop window is followed by a one-light window on the return to the second doorway. A two-light shop window is located to the left of the main door. The first floor features five sash windows; three are 16-pane and hornless. The window over number 37, on the right, is four-pane and horned. A two-pane hornless sash window over the extreme right entrance to number 33 may be missing original glazing bars. A large dormer window over number 37 has a casement with two leaves containing six panes.

The interior has not been inspected. According to the owner of number 33, a cobbled passageway supposedly ran down to the River Lowman.