10 Dew Street

This is a late 19th-century house and shops, originally built with dry-dash render and a close-eaved slate roof. The front has three storeys and three bays. The upper floors have 20th-century plate glass sash windows, spaced one bay apart to the left and two bays to the right, with the left sashes being broader. An off-centre doorway is set within a heavily moulded arched stucco frame, featuring moulded arch pilasters and panelled reveals. There are three stone steps leading to a door consisting of three long panels and one horizontal panel, topped with a radiating-bar fanlight. Sandstone steps and a threshold lead to the entrance.

To the left is a larger shop dating from around 1900, with fielded-panelled piers on either side and a fascia with a roller blind framed by round-topped raised blocks. It features a large plate glass window to the left, a thin timber column, a curved-glass pane canted, recessed part-glazed door, and a large square overlight. To the right is a similar curved canted pane. The skirting below the windows is faced with square green glazed tiles, and the entry has black and white tile paving. A panelled soffit completes the shop front. The shop to the right was formerly a butcher’s shop and is slightly smaller, with similar panelled piers, a fascia framed by rounded-cap brackets, a shop window to the left of the recessed door with a large square overlight, panelled soffit, and a right reveal. The shop window is a very broad four-pane sash with a marble slab inside. To the right of the shop front is a square-headed entry to a rear court.

The rear of the building has two gables: one rendered with two 20th-century plate glass windows and the other with an external chimney breast and stone stack, a slate-hung pier to the right, and a small, cambered-headed attic window. A 20th-century first-floor window is situated over the throughway.

A narrow rear court flanks two ranges, which were in poor condition in 2005. The two-storey range to the right has a corrugated iron roof and a ground floor of painted brick and render with three arched plate-glass sashes and a door to the right, above which is an added plastered upper storey. The range to the left is comprised of a short section near the rear of the main range, following by a longer range canted inward. It has two storeys of rubble stone and a top storey of thin timber and plaster. A prominent first-floor corbelled chimney breast with a brick shaft appears above the second floor level. The ground floor has a blocked door to the left of a large flight of stone steps leading to a loft door with a cambered brick head, and a window with a similar head to the left. To the right of the loft door, the first floor has been much rebuilt in brick with two broad, cambered-headed openings. The ground floor of this section has a door with a cambered brick head and a small square window with an oak lintel. The top floor has various windows in a rough plastered wall.

The ground floor of the shop on the right is accessible and contains a painted tile panel depicting cows, a remnant from the former butcher’s shop. The rear ranges have been altered, with the left range’s pine joists dating largely to the earlier 19th century. However, the ground floor nearest the front range retains two oak beams and some oak joists. A modern chimney piece sits within the fireplace of the corbelled chimney on the floor above.