The house is now used as shops and meeting rooms and it includes the headquarters of Chester Civic Trust.

[3][4] In the early 18th century the east (left) house bore a panel inscribed "EDGAR'S ACADEMY".

[5] By the 19th century it had become run down, the carvings on its frontage had been covered with plaster, the house had been split into tenements, and it was becoming derelict.

At the street level the east (left) house has a stone staircase with a wrought iron railing.

[1] The ground floor of the west house includes a shop with a central entrance.

At the row level is a wooden balustrade, and brackets with carvings similar to the east house.

[1] To the left of these are three panels containing carvings of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Abraham and Isaac.

[1] The two undercrofts have walls of red sandstone rubble, with brick barrel vaults which were probably added in the 18th century.

The larger room has an ornate 17th-century plaster ceiling and a massive fireplace; it is thought that these were moved from the Bishop's Palace in Abbey Square after this was damaged in the Civil War.