Westgate House

End-terrace house, painted stucco with imitation slates to roof, moulded timber eaves, and small rendered W end stack. Three storeys, five bays, with plinth, first floor tooled stone sill course, channelled outer piers, the ground floor rustication in tooled stone, channelled rustication to the ground floor and tooled stone plinth. Boxed eaves. Plate glass horned sash windows, the second floor windows cambered headed, the centre one only in a raised shouldered surround with sill brackets. Long first floor windows, the centre window with stucco moulded architrave with panelled pilasters and lintel, and cornice on brackets. Unusually ornate C19 iron balcony with ornate and curving scrolls to balustrade, carried on two pierced iron brackets. Ground floor has plain stucco heads to openings, breaking the channelled rustication. Above, and below first floor sill course, is a plain strip equivalent to two courses of the channeling. Windows have C20 scrolled iron guards. Centre recessed doorway with overlight and hardwood three-panel door, the top two panels arched. Painted tooled stone sills. Right end wall has no windows in main gable but parallel rear range has long stair-light to left and one window each floor to right, one a hornless 12-pane sash. Rear range has E end brick stack. Beyond is long two-storey former stable and coach-house range, converted to flats, running S and returning E to enclose rear court. Painted rubble rear W wall with 4 small widely-spaced windows under eaves. E side to courtyard is painted rendered with C20 windows. Rear of house is slate hung, three-storey, two-bay, with mostly modern windows. Attached to rear SW is long two-storey former stable and coach house range, painted stucco to E, modern windows, now flats. Short SE return. Rear W to Long Entry, painted rubble stone, with four small first floor loft windows. A piece of projecting masonry towards the N end may be ancient.

Ground floor altered, front dental surgery, back partly opened into shop in No 5. A wide opening with modern timber lintel between front and back is blocked, and has two heavily carved and large late C17 or early C18 acanthus brackets reused. Rear entry now into stair hall with good C19 stair in four flights with continuous curving rail, two balusters per tread, thin, one turned, one spiral twisted, scrolled foot to rail on balusters around centre bulbous cast-iron newel. Scrolled tread ends. At foot of stair is entry to cellar under front room, modern ceiling, lime-plastered walls, two square-headed recesses on E wall.