8 and 9, Northfield Road

8 and 9 Northfield Road are a pair of mid-19th century houses with shops on the ground floor, forming part of a much-altered terrace. The buildings have rendered fronts, with No. 8 featuring a roof covered in 20th-century tiles and No. 9 having tarred slates. Each house has a red brick chimney on the right-hand side wall, with the chimney of No. 8 painted.

The houses are three storeys tall with garrets and have two-window fronts. The ground storeys are divided into two bays, flanked and separated by Doric pilasters, except at the south end of No. 8 where there is no pilaster. An entablature runs above, with the frieze breaking forward over the pilasters. The doorways, located in the narrower left-hand bays, have ovolo-moulded surrounds; No. 8 features a four-panelled door with moulding, while No. 9 has a flush door. The wider right-hand bays contain shop windows, with No. 8 likely retaining its original window divided into four lights by wooden mullions, and a right-hand light that is canted, accompanied by a glazed shop door. No. 9 has a slightly later shop window with a recessed, glazed door in the centre.

The second-storey windows are round-arched with moulded architraves, each containing two recessed lights with round arches springing from pilasters; the centre pilaster is panelled, and the arches have moulded archivolts. The third-storey windows are similar, but all have segmental arches. The lights in both upper storeys have two-pane sashes, and there are box cornices at the eaves level. Each house features two gabled dormer windows with eaves projecting on moulded brackets; the window openings are round-arched with moulded architraves and plain sashes.

The interiors have not been inspected. These houses do not appear on the 1840 tithe map and are considered among the best surviving examples of their period in the shopping centre.