A Level 2 historic building assessment was completed by Leigh Alston in 2016 to inform and accompany a planning application for alteration (CBC application 170265). 55 West Stockwell Street forms the jettied left-hand wing of what appears to be a typical medieval cross-wing house - a narrow early-15th century cross-wing of two bays. Until the mid-20th century the three cottages (nos. 53-55) remained in the same occupation and housed a bakery business consisting of a dwelling in the right-hand wing, a cart shed in the centre and a shop in no. 55 with a good early-19th century shop window that still survives. A two-storied timber-framed bakehouse lay to the rear and was linked to no. 55 by a single-storied brick shed, but these were demolished in the 1950s or 60s.<1>