17, Scotch Street

17 Scotch Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with storage space above. It was built in the early 19th century and has undergone some later alterations. The building features Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, set on a chamfered plinth, and has painted stone dressings. It is adorned with V-jointed quoins and a bracketed cornice that wraps around the left side. The roof is hipped and covered with graduated greenslate, and there are no chimneys.

The structure is three storeys high and consists of a single bay that extends to the rear, making it a long, narrow building of double depth. On the ground floor, there is an early 20th-century door and shop window beneath an overall signboard supported by carved wooden brackets. Above, on the first floor, there is a tripartite window, and on the second floor, a Venetian window, both framed in stone, with the second-floor window featuring a bracketed sill. The plain brick right side of the building faces Longcakes Lane, while the left side, which faces East Tower Street, has two sash windows with glazing bars, positioned one above the other in brick reveals. There is evidence of ground-floor windows that have been infilled with brick.

Although this building is located at the end of the current Scotch Street, it would have originally been expected to be numbered as No. 1. This is because the street once extended beyond the city limits to Drovers Lane, where Rickergate began. The city boundary was marked by a ditch, which was later filled in, but the boundary remained outside the walls. For more information on the restoration of the buildings, illustrations can be found in the Cumberland News from June 12, 1981.