6 And 8, Front Street

Two houses with a former shop, dating from the late 18th century. They are built of ashlar stone with a plinth of coursed rubble, and have an asbestos-tiled roof with stone gable copings and stone and brick chimneys. The houses are two storeys and two bays wide. Steps lead up to partly-glazed doors on the left side of each bay. Number 8 has a high, segmental stone hood above its door lintel, carved to resemble voussoirs and with a moulded key. Number 6 has a similar lintel above its door and 20th-century windows. The first floor French window of Number 6 has a bowed balcony with a simple wrought-iron balustrade. A bowed oriel shop window in Number 6 has three rows of four panes of glass under a fascia and a small cornice. The roof has a left gable coping resting on moulded kneelers. Each house has a banded chimney on its left side; the chimney to Number 4 has offsets. A rounded corner, up to door lintel level, exists on the left return, which features a 20th-century ground floor window and a first-floor balconied French window, set beneath flat stone lintels, as well as a small four-pane attic window. The steps leading to Number 8 have wrought-iron handrails with spiral ends on square-section uprights, decorated with central twists.