51 And 51A, East Street

51 and 51A East Street is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century. It features solid rendered walls with masonry markings and has slated roofs; the front roof is hipped to the right, while the rear roof is gabled and positioned at right angles. The chimneys are located behind the front ridge and are not easily visible from the street. The building is double-fronted and double-depth, with a central through-passage and a secondary through-passage to the right. The kitchen is situated at the rear of the ground floor on the right, and the staircase is located at the rear left.

The house has three storeys and is four windows wide. The main entrance has a panelled door with flush bottom panels (the top panels are now glazed), and similar panelled reveals with a moulded architrave and a flat panelled hood on shaped brackets. A secondary door features six flush panels and similar panelled reveals, flanked by pilasters and an entablature. The ground floor has 8-paned sash windows, while the upper floors have 6-paned sash windows, all set in recessed box-frames. There is a bracketed eaves-cornice, and an early window with barred sashes is present at the rear.

Inside, there is an original wooden staircase with slender turned balusters and square newels with beaded corners, although the first flight has been altered. At the first-floor landing, the staircase is screened by three rounded arches. The ground-floor right front room has a plain 18th-century dado with a fluted rail and a 19th-century grey marble chimneypiece with an iron grate bordered by patterned coloured tiles. The left front room features an early 19th-century grey marble chimneypiece with an iron grate. On the first floor, the right front room also has an early 19th-century grey marble chimneypiece with an iron grate, while the left front room has a fireplace with an 18th-century eared wooden architrave and a late 19th-century iron grate with coloured patterned tiles. The ground floor contains an original four-panelled door, and there are two two-panelled doors on the second floor. The original roofs have collars pegged to the faces of the principal rafters.