6, 8 And 10, Northgate Street

Nos. 6, 8, and 10 Northgate Street are three town houses that have been converted into a terrace of three shops and former dwellings. They date from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The buildings are constructed of red brick with stone details, and the front of No. 8 has been painted white. They have slate roofs that are flat at the front.

The exterior features an imposing and uniform facade of four storeys with 20th-century shop fronts. Each unit is defined by chamfered stone quoins, and there is a moulded stone string course at the second and third-floor levels. A timber crowning entablature, renewed in the mid-20th century, includes a moulded modillion cornice that returns onto the quoins at each end.

On the first floors, the central window opening of No. 6 is blocked, with 19th-century plain sashes with raised sills inserted in the openings on either side. In No. 8, the lower half of later plain sashes in the window openings is concealed by a high shop fascia. No. 10 features some partial sashes with glazing bars. On the second floors, there are later sashes with thin glazing bars arranged in 2x4 panes. The third floors have a mix of sashes: the central window of No. 6 has sashes with thick glazing bars (3x5 panes), while the side windows have sashes with thin glazing bars. No. 8 has sashes with thin glazing bars (3x5 panes), and No. 10 has sashes with 3x4 panes. All sashes are flush within openings that have rubbed, light red, flat-arched heads set with raised key stones directly below the string courses and crowning entablature.

The interior has mostly been refitted in the 20th century, but No. 8 retains an 18th-century staircase on the upper floors. A similar five-bay, four-storey building with identical details once existed at Nos. 16 and 18 Westgate Street, which was demolished in 1935. This earlier building is depicted in Kip's aerial view published in 1712, suggesting that the date of this block could be around 1710.