23 Cross Street

Nos. 22, 23 and 23A (consec) Cross Street Built of yellow brick with some red brick dressings and terracotta details, natural slate roof with yellow brick stacks. Double depth plan with shops below and houses above from the first. Two storeys and attics with seven bays to the whole, 2 + 2 + 3. Two shopfronts with entries to the left, and one with a centre entry (No. 22) and house entries to the right of Nos. 22 and 23 which are the right and centre of the block. The shopfronts are largely original with large vertical panes with slim timber mullions and small lights above. Pilasters frame each shop and each door, making six in all, these have paired consoles and elaborate terracotta heads with swags and pedimented caps. Fascia to each shop, the house doors are 6-panel with keyed elliptical heads. The first floor has further pilasters rising to the coved cornice with paired console caps. Seven windows, 2 (No. 23A) + 2 (No. 23) + 1 (above door) + 1 (No. 22) + 1 ( above door). All these are 2 over 2 pane sashes with meeting rails curved on the underside and the tops of the upper sashes divided into small panes except for those of No. 23A which are now plate glass. Canted oriel window above No. 22, coved base and pedimented head, sashes as before. Coved cornice with deeply projecting eaves. Plain roof with four gabled dormers, these have 1 over 2-pane sashes, the upper pane divided into small panes as before, pedimented gables with finial, large stack to either gable.

Rear elevation not inspected.

Interior not inspected at resurvey.