3 Priory Street

3 Priory Street is part of a group of six terraced houses, built in the 19th century, with stucco frontages painted and Welsh slate roofs that are concealed behind parapets, making them invisible from the street. The terrace consists of three-storey, double-depth houses, some of which originally featured shops on the ground floor. There are a total of nineteen windows on the first floor, arranged in a pattern of 5:3:3:3:5. The ground floor includes four shopfronts for Nos. 1-4, an arched entrance to White Swan Court, and tripartite 6 over 6 pane sashes for Nos. 5 and 6.

The shopfronts are framed by fluted strip pilasters, while No. 3 and the entrance to White Swan Court are flanked by plain Doric pilasters. Nos. 5 and 6 have single pilasters at either end and three paired pilasters framing their tripartite windows. The entrance to White Swan Court features a fine pair of original double panelled doors. The houses have six-panel doors with arched heads, impost blocks, and radiating fanlights. A continuous cornice at the ground floor serves as a cill band for the first-floor windows, which are large 6 over 9 pane sashes, with blind boxes on those of No. 4.

Nos. 3 and the entrance to White Swan Court are distinguished by giant pilasters extending through the first and second floors, topped with Composite capitals. There is a cill band for the second-floor windows, which are all 3 over 3 pane sashes. A cornice band and parapet band are present, with No. 4 featuring an additional attic floor that has a pediment and a Diocletian lunette window. The other houses each have one small flat-topped dormer visible behind the parapet. The rear elevations of Nos. 1-3 are not visible, and White Swan Court is adjacent to No. 4. The entry to White Swan Court is flat-topped and framed by plain pilasters, with a first-floor 4-light window set in an arched recess and a tripartite sash above it. Nos. 5 and 6 have various plain sashes as previously described. The interior was not seen during the resurvey.