18 Gowthorpe

This early to mid-19th century building, originally a public house, is now a restaurant and the main entrance to the Abbey Walk Shopping Centre, with alterations dating to the 20th and 21st centuries.

The structure is built of stucco and fair-faced brick, with sandstone door surrounds and pitched pantile roofs. It has a trapezoidal two-bay plan incorporating a carriage passageway.

The south elevation’s ground floor features a modern shop front designed to resemble a late 19th-century style, with panelled stalls, risers, transom lights, and windows flanking a recessed and splayed entrance, which has a half-glazed panelled door. Horizontally channelled stone walling is on either side of the window. Above the transom windows, a moulded timber fascia is positioned below the original painted stone fascia, which continues above a carriage arch. This arch has a moulded four-centred head and keystone, rising on a plinth and featuring a plain architrave on both sides. The stuccoed first floor has rusticated corners, and a raised and moulded cornice acts as a sill band beneath two windows: one a late 19th-century four-light sash and the other a modern four-light casement. Both are within moulded architraves, beneath a moulded stuccoed eaves cornice. The building does not align with the adjacent 20 Gowthorpe, so the rendered west gable wall is partially visible from the rear. It has ashlar coping and an apex chimney stack. The roof is drained by a mixture of plastic and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The east side elevation, alongside the former carriage passageway, has a modern double-fronted shop window. This is set between channelled stone walling and a central stone doorcase raised on a plinth, with a moulded four-centred head, a keystone. The rear brick elevation of the projecting room above the passageway is constructed using English garden wall bond, incorporating a relieving arch and a blocked window. The two-storey, two-bay rear range is built with small bricks laid in a mixed garden wall bond and has two modern four-light sashes to the ground floor on concrete sills, and a single central sash to the first floor. The north gable is canted and steeply pitched, partially exposed above an adjacent property's roof. It has ashlar stone coping, a rendered ridge stack towards the centre of the roof, and is drained by timber rainwater gutters.