23, Sadler Street

23 Sadler Street is a row house with a shop, dating from the 16th century, with a front from the 18th century and modifications from the 19th century. The building features timber-framing that is rendered and colourwashed, along with rubble, and has a double-gabled roof with the ridge running at right angles to the street, covered with clay triple roll tiles.

The plan is a double-depth layout, but the ground floor has been opened up to create a continuous space. To the right, there is a through-passage supported by three heavy rough-chamfered beams that bear on the wall of the adjoining property, No. 25.

The exterior comprises three storeys and three bays. The ground floor has a later 20th-century shop front featuring a three-light display window and a deep recess to the right, which includes doors leading to the shop and a ginnel to the rear. The upper floors are adorned with 12-pane sash windows that have timber architraves, and there are wrought-iron brackets for hanging baskets at each end at the first-floor sill level.

The interior has not been inspected. This property is likely of the same date as the adjoining No. 25 and represents an early example where the original fabric has been concealed due to the refashioning of the frontage.