Henry's Gift Shop with house over

This is a three-storey, four-bay terraced house with a shop on the ground floor, built in the 18th century. It is situated in a terrace with lower eaves and a lower ridge line than the adjacent Westgate House and the Lion Hotel. The exterior is painted roughcast, with later 19th-century stuccoed window surrounds and sash windows. The roof is covered with imitation slates, and features brick end stacks and dentilled brick eaves. The windows are plate glass sashes, square on the second floor, longer on the first floor, and shorter on the ground floor, all set in shouldered surrounds with a quadrant inner moulding, an outer hood moulding, and painted slate sills. Two steps lead to the doorway in the third bay, which has a moulded stucco surround with a keystone above a 20th-century door and overlight, topped with a thin flat canopy supported by timber brackets. A raised plinth is present, along with two basement grilles.

A rear southwest wing is stuccoed, with a rubble stone east side, and a slightly raised chimney breast to the south end. A further, lower two-storey wing extends beyond this.

The ground floor has been altered to create a shop and a corridor was cut through to connect with The Lion Hotel and Number 3. A front room contains two blocked openings on the rear wall, one leading to an axial passage and another formerly providing access to The Lion. The stone flagged cellar under the front range has a modern ceiling. The rear northwest kitchen retains three heavy beams supported by large stone corbels, with the fireplace either filled in or removed. A servants’ stair is located behind. The first floor includes a full-width former ballroom, accessed via two 6-panel fielded-panelled doors with panelled shutters featuring border strips. A recent import from a country house in North Wales includes a white-and-grey veined marble fireplace with moulded panels to the pilasters and lintel, along with a reeded ceiling border. A six-panel fielded-panelled door at the east end of the passage leads to a blocked access to Number 3. The staircase on the rear wall appears to be 20th century, constructed from reused components of an earlier 19th-century staircase and features square balusters. The top floor has 4-panel doors and panelled shutters. The rear wing’s first floor has rough collar trusses in the older northern section, and a large 19th-century window with panelled shutters. Collar trusses are also found in the lower southern end.