7 & 9 Broad Street

This is a mirrored pair of red brick terraced houses, built in the 18th century and located on Broad Street. The houses are constructed with Flemish bond brickwork, with brick eaves and a slate roof. Tall brick rear wall stacks are prominent features. Each house is three storeys high, with three bays per house. They have dummy windows on the upper floors above paired doorways, and ground floor shops with their own outer doors. The windows have flat tops with gauged brick detail and painted stone sills. The top floor has six-pane windows, the first floor has twelve-pane windows, and the ground floor windows next to the shop doors originally had twelve panes, though the window on No. 7 has been enlarged.

The four doorcases are similar in design. The inner doorway pair have taller, coupled doorcases with thin pilasters, panelled fascias, and a single shelf cornice. The overlights feature elegant tracery with intersecting opposed curves. The two centre doors belong to No. 7—one is of four panels, and the other is a ledged door providing access to a through passage. The outer doors have simpler doorcases without overlights. The shop at No. 9 has a half-glazed front door, and the adjacent ground floor sash window has lost its lower glazing bars. A 19th-century shop window has replaced the original smaller window on No. 7; it has a frame echoing the door design, with panelled pilasters and a shared shelf cornice. This shop window has a large two-pane window. The adjacent outer doorway has a six-panel flush-panelled door.

A tall, three-storey brick rear wing was added to No. 7 after a fire. An older, two-storey rear wing serves No. 9. The rear of No. 9 features a large brick rear wall chimney and a raised top floor with a cambered headed window beside the chimney. The rear wing’s east wall at ground floor has close-studded timber with one heavy horizontal rail; the first floor is plastered. A triple casement window sits above a fixed four-pane window. A further range to the south has an east wall constructed of rubble stone.

Stone setts are laid in front of the buildings. Inside, No. 9’s front rooms (both on the front and first floor) feature stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A room in the rear wing of No. 9 has one north-south beam and plain joists. The staircase in No. 9 has straight balusters.