37 Cross Street

Nos. 37-39 Cross Street is a building dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations. It has a rendered and painted front elevation, with natural slate roofs. The original red sandstone is visible at the rear. The building comprises a single-depth range with gabled cross-wings at either end and two small rear wings located centrally. A 20th-century single-storey extension now covers the entire ground floor.

The street-facing elevation is arranged in five bays, a 4 + 1 configuration, with the end bay forming a projecting gabled wing. The left-hand bay (Bay 1) features a late 19th-century shop or pub frontage, with a two-over-two pane sash window, supplemented by four smaller panes in the upper sash. A small balconette is present below this window, with the original features visible in a 1913 photograph. Bay 2 has a six-panel door, likely from the 18th century, with a small pediment above. The window above this door is a two-over-two pane sash with a balconette, as depicted in a 1913 photograph. Bays 3 and 4 also have a late 19th-century shop/pub frontage, now divided into two shops, with two windows above, the left-hand one being a later addition. Bay 5 is the least altered part of the front elevation, retaining a four-by-four pane shop window and a small doorway to the right, as shown in a 19th-century photograph. Above these, a two-over-two pane sash window is accompanied by a balconette and a small attic window within the gable. All original joinery has been replaced. The gable features plain bargeboards. An early 18th-century modillion eaves cornice runs along the central bays. The steeply pitched roof has a large truncated stack situated between Bay 1 and No. 40, and a smaller stack between Bays 3 and 4. A large stack shown in photographs, located between Bays 5 and 6, was removed in the late 20th century, leaving a visible mark on the slates.

The rear elevation exhibits random local red sandstone rubble walling above a 20th-century single-storey, flat-roofed rendered extension. No. 37 has a blocked window on the left and a cross-framed casement on the right. No. 38 features two cross-framed casements, one within a gabled wing, with a small attic casement above. The same applies to No. 39, which has a slightly larger gable containing the main stair. The antiquity of these casement windows is uncertain. Evidence of a recently removed chimney stack is visible in the slating.

The ground floor has undergone significant alterations, reflecting its division into three separate properties for at least two hundred years. Historic features within Nos. 37 and 38 are hidden behind modern cladding, obscuring the original layout.