13 Westgate Street

Formerly a dwelling, now a shop, built in the mid-C18, with C19 and C20 alterations.     MATERIALS: painted brick with stone details and a slate roof.     PLAN: double-depth block with a short wing to left at the rear of 11 Westgate Street (Grade II).     EXTERIOR: three storeys high with a cellar. The principal elevation contains a late C19 shop-front on the ground floor, with a moulded bracket at either end of the shop fascia. The upper floors are of three bays; each floor has three identical six-over-six, timber-framed sash windows with glazing bars in openings with flat, rubbed brick arches, set with raised keystones and projecting stone sills. The former timber crowning cornice and dormer windows were removed in the C19 (they are shown removed in a photograph of about 1904) and were replaced with a plain brick parapet that has stone capping.     INTERIOR: the building was mostly relined in the C20 and has a C20 staircase. In the front room on the second floor, there is a mid-C18 chimneypiece of painted stone with a raised keystone in the lintel. The building also contains C18 panelled doors. In the brick-walled cellar is a C18 chimneypiece with stone surround and a raised keystone in the lintel (National Monuments Record).