4, Fore Street

No 4 Fore Street is a Gothic-style building dating from around 1860 to 1870. It stands three storeys tall with an attic in the gable, featuring two types of freestone that create a patterned effect. The main three storeys are flanked by buttresses topped with crocket capitals and marble nook shafts. There is a weathered sill band at the second floor. The gable, which has a finial and coping, includes three small decorative trefoils with marble insets. The attic window is a single shouldered light with an openwork stone balcony supported by foliage on a corbel. The other floors feature four windows arranged in pairs, with single shouldered lights on the second floor and lancets with moulded heads on the first floor. A deep cornice and brackets extend over contemporary shop fronts, which include openwork cresting that supports a clock. The shop window has three lights divided by colonnettes, and there is an entrance to the left with a ten-panel door and fanlight. This building is part of an important group that includes No 1A Billet Street, No 66 The County Hotel, the Brendon Bar, and No 8 East Street, along with other listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.