The Act allowed Hammet to purchase two houses on Fore Street, one occupied and the other empty, and demolish them to make way for the new road.

Hammet Street is 36 feet (11 m) wide at its narrowest point, designed to allow carriages to travel to the church without endangering pedestrians.

Both sides of the road are of similar design, consisting of the original eighteenth century three-storey terraces of brown brick, with each house separated by plain pilasters, and continuous eaves cornice.

The door-cases of numbers 4–8 and 9–12 are of painted stone, with "half round Tuscan pilasters, open pediments and traceried fanlights.

[1][6] The entry for numbers 13–17 notes that those properties have been "considerably altered, especially on the ground floor," and have shop fronts dating from no later than the nineteenth century.