16-28 New Street

16-28 New Street is a terrace of shops built in the early 19th century, with alterations made in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of brown brick, which is now rendered, and feature a pan-tile roof and timber windows.

The terrace is two storeys high and aligned from south-west to north-east, with a single-storey catslide extension at the rear. The front faces north-west onto New Street and currently accommodates six shops. The two-storey structure has a brick-bracketed eaves cornice and an ogee cast-iron gutter supported by scrolled stays. Each shop has recessed doorways and rectangular fanlights, with inclined fascias that have simplified scroll consoles, larger consoles at numbers 16 and 26. Numbers 24 and 22 share a recessed entrance, and number 16, which was formerly two units, has a similar entrance. The shop windows at number 22 feature glazing bars, while number 24 has glazing bars and transoms. Number 28 has a higher fascia and windows with leaded transom lights, and both it and numbers 24 and 22 have black and white tile floors in their entrances. The first-floor windows are three-pane casements with two transom lights.

The gable end of number 28 is blind and features a truncated ridge stack. The original rear wall is concealed by a narrow secondary extension that runs the full length of the terrace, topped with a cat-slide pantile roof; all ground-floor openings in this rear extension have been blocked. Numbers 24, 26, and 28 have a deeper plan and taller ridge, with first-floor rear walls above the extension. The attic and first-floor windows on the south-west gable wall of number 24 have been bricked up, number 26's rear window is obscured by boarding, and number 28 is illuminated by a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window. The pitched roofs of numbers 14 to 20 are clad in pantiles, while number 26 has a similar roof with a shallow mono-pitched roof at the rear covered in corrugated asbestos sheeting. The gabled roofs of numbers 24 and 28 have been treated in a similar manner.