NHER 34554 (Building record) - 16 to 17 Northgate Street

August 1974. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Pair of shops with accommodation above. Mid 17th century, altered and re-roofed 17th century, refurbished early 18th century and the façade re-worked late 18th century. Red brick rendered, whitewashed and scored to resemble ashlar. Roof of corrugated tiles.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and dormer attic; six-window range. No.16 with early 20th-century shop front and No.17 with a late 20th-century shop front...Gabled roof with 2 gabled dormers, one to each property...Internal gable-end stacks north and south. South wall in Row 6 has remains of an arched opening towards the east end. Whitewashed two-storey cross-wing to rear now comprises Nos 16A and 16B. Cross-wing to No.17 also two-storeyed, with a Mansard roof and an internal gable-end stack.
INTERIOR of No.16: ground-floor front room with a mid-17th-century double wave-moulded bridging beam terminating in an acanthus leaf stop. The south and part of west walls with early 18th-century large-framed panelling and double doors opening into an integral cupboard. The panelling has a cornice with modillions. Rear room in cross-wing with a fragment of large-framed panelling on the rear wall. First floor with chamfered 18th-century bridging beams...
INTERIOR of No.17: Three ovolo-moulded bridging beams to ground floor. First floor front room with early 18th-century large-framed panelling and a plain overmantel to the fire. Three-panelled cupboard doors right and left with cockshead hinges. Modillion eaves cornice. Ovolo-moulded bridging beam with tongue stops. Rear with ovolo-moulded bridging beams. Roof retains one mid-17th-century upper cruck."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 June 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2022.