Premises Of B Sparkes And Son

The premises of B Sparkes and Son is a building that was likely a large town house, now functioning as shop premises. It dates from the early 18th century and is constructed from coursed rubble stone with dressed quoins. The roof is made of stone slate and features a moulded wood eaves cornice. There is an external stone stack at the right end and a large brick ridge stack on the rear wing.

The building has a single front range and a rear cross range, standing two storeys tall with an attic in the gable end. It has six windows, which are 12-pane sashes that are unevenly spaced; three are close together on the left side, while three are further apart on the right. The ground floor includes one former sash window, now replaced with a plate glass window to the left, which has a timber lintel above it in a formerly larger opening. There is also a door with four bolection-moulded panels, half-glazed, and a timber lintel. To the right, there is a large 19th-century double shop front, which may have replaced a carriage arch and one matching window, or could even represent the ground floor of a separate house.