Blackie House, 2-6 (Inclusive Nos) North Bank Street And Wardrop's Court

Blackie House, located at 2-6 North Bank Street and Wardrop's Court, dates back to the late 17th century. The upper floors were reconstructed by S. Henbest Capper in 1894, with the shop front added in 1898 and further alterations made by Robert Hurd in 1950. This six-storey building, which includes an attic and a basement to Wardrop's Close, features a six-bay tenement with balustraded shops extending out to North Bank Street. The structure is made of random rubble, painted at the ground level, with freestone dressings, while the side facing Wardrop's Close is cream harled.

On the North Bank Street elevation, the building has a regular arrangement of narrow windows that light the stairwell between the second and third bays from the left. The ground floor includes three shops adorned with Ionic pilasters, a continuous modillioned cornice, and fascia. The left shop has a bowed front, with plate glass windows and recessed glazed doors topped with timber swan-necked pediments. A balustraded parapet marks the roof line. The third and fourth floors feature three piend-roofed two-storey oriels, with terracotta plaques at the center. The eaves are accented by a cavetto cornice, and there are three wide two-window plastered timber jettied wallhead gablets, along with smaller piend-roofed dormers in the attic.

The Wardrop's Court elevation has a taller two-bay stair tower in the center, with two timber boarded doors, one of which is set in a roll-moulded surround. To the right, there are two bays, and to the left, four bays, all regularly fenestrated, with smaller windows at the outer edges. Stone steps lead to a basement area, which features a two-leaf studded timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges in a roll-moulded surround to the outer left. The roof is mansard with pedimented dormers and box dormers above. The basement area is enclosed by cast-iron railings.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are tall harled stacks with circular cans.