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

46 and 48 Ousegate, formerly known as the Queens Vaults public house, is a former public house built in the early 19th century and altered in the 20th century.

The building features a painted brick main elevation with fair-faced brick gables and a gabled roof covered in Welsh slate with ridge tiles. It has a rectangular plan that includes a central carriageway.

The three-storey, three-bay main elevation is constructed of colour-washed brick. The ground floor has a central carriage entrance flanked by modern retail frontages. Number 46 has a slightly recessed modern timber and plywood public house frontage, which includes a framed fascia board with a moulded cornice, stylised pilasters, a framed and braced door on the left, and an eight-light window on the right. Number 48 features a modern aluminium-framed takeaway shop front with a glazed two-panel door on the right. The central carriage entrance is topped by a depressed brick arch and is closed by a pair of timber doors that are rebated on either side of the jambs of the carriage passage.

Both the first and second floors have three flush-framed four-light sash windows, which have slightly projecting sills and painted flat-brick lintels. The gabled roof has raised stone-coped gables that rise 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 fascia 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.