57, Westgate Street

No. 57 Westgate Street is a shop and town house, originally built around 1720, with early 19th century alterations and a later 19th century extension. It was altered and restored in 1988. The building is constructed of brick with dressed stone details and features a timber crowning cornice. The former slate roof was replaced with tiles in 1988, and there are gabled dormers.

The structure is a double-depth block with a rear wing to the left. The entrance lobby to the offices is located to the left of the shop, which was formerly the entrance to the house. The building has three storeys, a cellar, and an attic. The ground floor was remodeled in 1988, with the shop front and lobby doorway framed by ashlar piers featuring banded rustication, a plain fascia above, and a segmental cantilevered hood over the doorway.

The upper floors consist of four bays made of bright red brick in Flemish bond, accented with contrasting dressed stone details. There is a raised ashlar band at the second and attic-floor levels, along with a deep crowning entablature with modillions and returned ends. The outer corners have raised chamfered quoins. Each upper floor has four sashes of the same size, featuring glazing bars (2x4 panes) in openings with rubbed brick, flat-arched heads set with raised key stones beneath the raised bands, and projecting, moulded stone sills. Below each sill and between the upper raised band and the crowning entablature is a dressed stone, fielded apron panel. The roof has two dormers with pedimental gables and double casements.

Inside, the building has been largely remodeled and relined in the 20th century. On the first floor, the front room has been refitted in the early 19th century, featuring door and window joinery with fluted architraves and paterae corner blocks. The second floor's front room includes an 18th century chimney-piece with a bolection mould surround. There is also an 18th century brick-walled and vaulted cellar.