49 AND 51, WHEELGATE (See details for further address information)

The property comprises three houses, now combined into a single shop, located at 49 and 51 Wheelgate, and incorporating number 1 Finkle Street. Number 1 Finkle Street dates to the mid-18th century, while numbers 49 and 51 Wheelgate were built in the early and mid-19th centuries respectively, with later 19th and 20th-century alterations.

Number 1 Finkle Street is constructed of painted dressed and rubble stone, with a rendered section on the right side, and features a brick stack and a pantile roof. Number 49 Wheelgate is built of coursed squared stone, partly rendered and incised to resemble ashlar, with a right return and rear elevations of pink and cream brick. It has brick stacks at the centre right and right end of the pantile roof. Number 51 Wheelgate is constructed of orange-red brick in English garden-wall bond, with a rendered and painted front, and rendered brick stacks to a part-slate and part-pantile hipped roof.

Number 49 Wheelgate has a three-storey, three-window front with two shop fronts on the ground floor. The left-hand shop front has a plate-glass window within a fluted pilaster and cornice frame, adjacent to a glazed and panelled door. The right-hand shop front features fluted pilasters with imposts, a plain fascia with a moulded paired modillion cornice on fluted corbels, with a recessed glazed and panelled door between plate-glass windows containing transoms and turned mullions. A glazed showcase window projects to the left of the door. The first-floor windows are eight-pane sashes over single panes, with one a single-pane fixed light, all with painted wedge lintels. Second-floor windows are 2x12-pane sliding sashes with painted stone sills.

Number 51 Wheelgate has a three-storey, two-window front with a lower, three-storey, one-window section to the left. Two shop fronts occupy the ground floor, the right-hand one extending around the corner into Finkle Street. These shop fronts have moulded panel pilasters beneath a plain fascia and a modillion cornice between jettied corbels. The original glazed and panelled door with fanlight in the canted corner is now blocked. Upper-floor windows to the taller part are four-pane sashes, taller on the first floor, with raised sillbands on both floors. A moulded eaves cornice is present. The lower part has a two-light large-pane sliding sash on the first floor, and a four-pane sash with a painted stone sill on the second floor; the sillband at first-floor level continues from the higher end.

The Finkle Street return front of number 51 Wheelgate is three storeys with three windows, adjoining a two-storey, two-window front to number 1 Finkle Street. The design of number 51 Wheelgate's front is repeated on the Finkle Street return. Number 1 Finkle Street has a 20th-century part-glazed door within a raised surround of quoins and voussoirs, between shallow bracketed bow windows. A boarded passage door with a timber lintel is at the right end. First-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes with painted stone sills.