16, Buttgarden Street

This is a house with a shop, likely dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, with alterations and additions from the late 19th or early 20th century. The front is solid and rendered, topped with a slate roof, and has a red-brick chimney on the right side wall. The building is three storeys high and has a two-window front.

On the ground floor, a doorcase is flanked by Doric pilasters that support a triangular pediment. The door itself has six ovolo-moulded panels with matching reveals. Beside the door is a shop front with pilasters featuring fluting on the lower parts of the shafts and capitals, and an entablature with a heavily-moulded cornice that projects forward over shaped brackets at each end. The shop front has two display windows, leading to a canted centre with recessed, half-glazed double doors; these doors have a solid moulded lower panel. The upper floors have a shallow rectangular bay window of two lights on the right side, with a moulded cornice above the lights. The windows on the left have long aprons creating a continuous vertical feature. All windows are 2-paned sashes with horns and continued sills. A deeply projecting, bracketed eaves cornice completes the frontage.

The interior has not been inspected, but behind the house door is a half-glazed inner door with glazing bars, some margin-panes containing coloured glass. It has group value context as a representative example of commercial building in the town.