Nos. 48 50/50A With Entrance To Yard 50 (Stramongate Court)

These are a group of houses, now mostly shops, dating from the late 18th century and built for John ("Squire") Hoggarth. Later additions and alterations have been made. They are constructed of tooled ashlar with a first-floor sill band. The buildings have moulded cast-iron gutters to number 50/50A, which are supported by dentils. They have graduated slate roofs with stone end chimneys to numbers 50/50A and a stone mid chimney to numbers 48 & 52.

The buildings are three storeys high and have a total of 13 bays, originally laid out symmetrically. Number 48 has a projecting shop front from the 20th century. An entrance to a yard, at number 50, is located in a recessed bay on the right and features a semicircular-headed carriage arch. Above the arch is a tripartite sash window beneath a scalloped, wooden, segmental head, and below, a single sash window. There is a single sash window to each floor above the shop front.

Within the yard passage, a panelled door to number 48 is set within a corniced doorcase featuring acanthus capitals to the panelled pilasters and a bas-relief sculpture of Diana the Huntress on the frieze. A panelled door to number 50 is located on the right-hand side in a similar corniced doorcase with panelled pilasters and reveals. Number 50/50A also has projecting 20th-century shop fronts and five sash windows to each floor above. Number 52 is a mirror image of number 48 and retains the original ground floor, which features three semicircular-headed sash windows in recessed surrounds with an interrupted impost band on a plinth.

A ramped, wooden double gate with a spiked top is located at the carriage arch entrance on the left. Further along the passage, a panelled door sits in a doorcase with engaged Roman Doric columns supporting an entablature. All windows are sashes with glazing bars.