20 to 34 Clayton Street

Houses, now shops and offices, and public house. Circa 1837, probably by John
Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; painted brick with ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. Main elevation 4 storeys,
7 and 9 bays. Ground floor C20 shops. Upper floors have sashes, some with
glazing bars, in plain reveals those on second floor have aprons and slightly-
projecting sills. Prominent second-floor cornice; top cornice. Roof not
visible. Left return has 3 right bays in same style as front elevation. 3 left
bays of painted brick have c.1900 ground floor, with recessed 6-panel doors
under pediments and large overlights, flanking wide plate-glass window curved
towards doors. Upper floors have sashes with glazing bars under wedge stone
lintels; second-floor projecting sills, first-floor sill band; eaves band.
Roof has left gable coping. 20 to 26 redeveloped behind facade. LISTED GRADE 2