46 and 48 Ousegate (formerly the Queens Vaults public house)

Former public house, early C19, altered in the C20.

MATERIALS: painted brick main elevation, fair-faced brick gables, gabled roof clad in Welsh slate with ridge tiles.

PLAN: rectangular plan with central carriageway.

EXTERIOR: the three-storey, three-bay main elevation is built using colour-washed brick with a ground floor that has a central carriage entrance flanked by modern retail frontages. Number 46 has a slightly recessed modern timber and plywood public house frontage that has a framed facia board with moulded cornice, stylised pilasters, a framed and braced door to the left and an eight-light window to the right. Number 48 has a modern aluminium-framed takeaway shop front with a glazed two-panel door to the right. The central carriage entrance has a depressed brick arch that is closed by a pair of timber doors; the doors are rebated on either side of the jambs of the carriage passage. The first and second floors both have three flush-framed four-light sash windows, with slightly projecting sills and painted flat-brick lintels. The gabled roof has raised and stone coped gables rising from cut kneelers, with brick chimney stacks at their apex. Each chimney has projecting coping stones at its base. The roof of number 46 is drained by a cast-iron gutter attached to a facia that partially obscures a brick modillion eaves cornice. The ground and first floors undersail the roof of the adjacent Corunna House (numbers 42 and 44 Ousegate), with the fair-faced brick wall of the north gable rising above.