31, Westgate Street

This is a mid-18th century shop and former dwelling, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a double-depth building with a long wing to the rear, which incorporates an 18th-century outbuilding. The front of the building is red brick with a slate and tile roof and a brick stack. The front elevation originally had a cornice, but this has been replaced with a plain brick parapet. An early 20th-century shop front occupies the ground floor, with a recessed entrance doorway on the left. Above the shop, the upper floors have two bays, with contrasting brighter red brick quoins at the corners and around the window jambs and arches. The upper floors contain two 19th-century sash windows of a similar size to each other, set within openings with rubbed brick flat arches that feature raised keystones and projecting stone sills. The rear wing includes an 18th-century two-storey block with a hipped roof and sash windows; this was originally a separate building but is now linked to the main block by a 19th-century extension. Inside, behind the shop is a staircase from the early 19th century, featuring column newels and stick balusters. A mid-19th-century marble chimney piece is in the first-floor front room and the attic of the front block contains a partially exposed king post roof truss.