15-18, OFFICE SQUARE

A group of four houses, numbered 15 to 18, with one shop, dating to the early 18th century, and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. They occupy a square plan layout that encroaches onto the village green. The north elevation, facing the road, is of coursed squared stone, while the other elevations are of rubble construction, with quoins and ashlar dressings. The roofs are of Welsh slate, with stone gable copings and stone and brick chimneys. The north elevation has two storeys and three bays wide. Early 18th-century two-panel doors, with glazed panels, are set within paired door surrounds to numbers 16 and 17, and a later door of around 1980 is at the left of the third bay. Number 16 features a 20th-century mullioned and transomed bay window on the ground floor and a three-light window above, beneath a wide stone lintel. Number 17 has plain sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Number 18 has a shop window with a corniced projecting square bay, featuring four rows of four panes, with a ventilator inserted in the top-right pane. The first floor has renewed paired sashes of a late 19th-century style, beneath a wide stone lintel. The roof has moulded kneelers, and chimneys are constructed of banded stone and corniced brick. The left return bay of number 15 is of two lower storeys and three bays, with a central door dating to around 1930, beneath a flat stone lintel. A bowed shop window with 16 large panes is on the left, and a sash window above, of late 19th-century style, with a flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill. Similar treatment is found in the smaller windows to the right of the door. The right return of number 18 has a door dating to around 1985 and renewed sashes of a late 19th-century style. The building’s group value derives from its cohesive design and historical context within the village.