16 West Street

The left half of a large semi-detached pair of houses with ground floor shops. Painted stucco cladding, parallel slate roofs, with street-facing gables, fretted bargeboards and ridge finials, and a central stack on ridge of each range. Tall 2-storey and attic, 4-window range, with a paired sash window to each gable of 2 narrow plate glass sashes and 4 4-pane sash windows of matching size to first floor, 2 to each house. Ground floor C20 shop-windows, a wide plate glass shop window to No 16 and a smaller tripartite sash window to No 14, a restoration since 1978. In centre, broad open porch with 2 columns and 2 responds of painted stone and cornice in wood. Porch set on raised slate paving slabs with steps up and iron railings linking 2 columns. Paired doorways, C20 panelled door to No 16 and C20 glazed door to No 14 both with plain overlight. Rubble stone left end wall with centre first floor window.