25, Sadler Street

25 Sadler Street is a row house with a shop that has been converted into offices. It dates from the 16th century or earlier, with an 18th-century facade, and the roof was rebuilt around 1970. The building is rendered on timber-framing, with rubble party walls and stack, and features concrete tiling with a hip on the northeast corner.

The structure is three storeys high and has three bays. The ground floor showcases an impressive late 18th-century shop front, characterized by slim reeded pilasters, a double fascia, and a thin lead-capped cornice that frames bowed 12-pane windows with very slender glazing bars and some old glass, along with a central 20th-century door. The upper floors contain 12-pane sash windows with timber architraves, with the first-floor windows in bays two and three featuring thick glazing bars. Access to the rear is provided by a through passage under the adjoining No. 23, where the wall to No. 25 includes a wide plank door leading to the cellar and another door near the rear.

The rear wall is timber-framed and rendered, gabled, and shows remnants of the original rubble stone stack in the valley between two slopes, with the stack raised in late 19th-century brickwork. Adjacent to the through passage is a small lean-to projection with one square light, and there is a one-bay extension featuring an early 18th-century twelve-pane sash window in a face box, possibly in timber-framing. A projecting sign is located on the right-hand side at first-floor level.

The interior has been partly inspected, but the upper floors are not accessible. The ground floor front includes a fine stone fireplace with a stopped moulded surround to a square opening, and this room also features a chamfered lateral beam. A rear winder staircase is said to retain some splat balusters in the upper flights, and some early framing may still exist in the much restructured roof. The basement, accessed by a flight of stone steps, is entered through a low pointed and chamfered stone arch leading to a stone flagged floor, and it has an elliptical stone barrel vault with its axis parallel to the street.