37 Cross Street

Nos. 37-39 (consec) Cross Street Rendered and painted front elevation with natural slate roofs, the red sandstone is revealed at the rear. Single depth range with gabled cross-wings at either end and two small rear wings behind the centre range. This also has a C20 single storey extension covering the whole of the ground floor. The street elevation is in five bays, 4 + 1, the end bay being a projecting gabled wing. From the left, Bay 1 has a late C19 shop or pub frontage (shown in 1913, see History) with a 2 over 2 pane sash, with an additional four small lights in the upper sash, above. Bay 2 has a 6-panel door with a small pediment over the pediment is shown in 1913, the door is probably C18). Sash above as before, but with a small iron balconette (shown in 1913). Bays 3 and 4 have another late C19 shop/pub frontage, now two shops (shown in 1913) with two windows as before above, but the left hand one is post 1913. Bay 5 is the least altered from the C18. It has a 4 x 4 pane shop window with small doorway to right, as shown in the C19 photograph. Two over 2 pane sash with balconette above and small attic window in gable, all as shown but the joinery has been replaced. Gable with plain bargeboards. Probably early C18 modillion eaves cornice along the central bays. Steeply pitched roof with large truncated stack between bay 1 and No. 40 (qv) and small one between 3 and 4. The matching large stack between 5 and 6 shown in the photographs has been removed in the late C20 and leaves a scar in the slating. The rear elevation shows the random local red sandstone rubble walling above a C20 single storey flat roofed extension which is rendered. No. 37 has a blocked window on the left and a cross framed casement on the right. There is evidence of the recently removed chimney stack in the slating. No. 38 has two cross framed casements, one in a gabled wing and with a small attic casement above it. Same to No. 39 but with a slightly larger gable which contains the main stair. All these casement windows are of uncertain antiquity.

The ground floor is the most altered as it has been three properties for at least two hundred years. Nos. 37 and 38 have all possible historic features hidden behind modern cladding and the early planning is now heavily disguised.