5, DOLLAR STREET (See details for further address information)

This is a house, now used as a hairdressing salon, club, and flat, with its earliest visible features dating to 1676 (at the rear, on Coxwell Street). The building appears to be of a single build, but has undergone alterations, particularly to the front facade on Dollar Street during the early 19th century and subsequently. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble at the sides and rear, with the left side of No.5 Dollar Street stuccoed, and timber framing concealed behind stucco to the front. The roof is of Welsh slate with a 19th-century brick stack on the left side rear gable. The building presents one gable to Dollar Street and four gables to the left side facing Coxwell Street.

The Dollar Street front is two storeys, an attic, and a cellar; it is a one-window range. A large 19th-century two-light window with slender timber mullions and nine panes of glass to each light is centrally placed on the first floor, complemented by a similar blind window in the gable above. A 20th-century shopfront with plate glass windows, a recessed glazed door, and a jetty protrude at ground floor level. A triple hoodmould extends over the first-floor window and incorporates round-headed niches on either side, each containing a 19th-century sculpted female figure, approximately 1.5m high: one holding a trumpet, the other a lyre. The gable features 19th-century carved bargeboards with a carved finial.

The Coxwell Street elevation to the left has two three-light timber casements with timber mullions, plain reveals, timber cills, and hoodmoulds on both first and ground floors. A small 20th-century window is located on the first floor to the left, while two blind windows with hoodmoulds are set within the side gables of No.5 Dollar Street. The rear part of the left side (No.2 Coxwell Street) features a three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window with leaded lights and a hoodmould on the first floor, and a similar two-light blind window in the gable to the right. Ground floor level displays a 19th-century sash window with a hoodmould and a moulded stone doorcase bearing the initials "R E E" and the date “1676” on the frieze and moulded cornice. A six-panel door with glazed upper panels completes the entrance. A single-storey extension to the rear (on the left side of the Coxwell Street elevation) displays a blocked shop window, revealing an exposed timber lintel and a moulded string above.

The interior of the ground floor front is a shop with no access to the rest of the building. The ground floor rear and upper floors are accessible via a door from No.2 Coxwell Street. The first floor front features boxed-out beams, while the second floor landing displays a late 17th-century balustrade with heavy turned balusters at the head of the staircase. The roof incorporates extended collars and chamfered butt purlins, partially concealed. The rear range has a rafter roof with a single continuous purlin on each side, with a collar built into the gable wall at each end.