Nos. 1 And 3 The Starkies And Screen Wall To Yard On North Side

Nos. 1 and 3 The Starkies, along with the screen wall to the yard on the north side, are early 18th-century buildings that were originally a coaching inn. They underwent alterations in the early to mid 19th century. No. 1 features a roughly coursed dressed stone gabled garden front that rises three storeys. It has a three-light flat-mullioned window in the gable, early 19th-century flush windows, and later 19th-century sashes on the ground and first floors. The left-hand return front consists of two sections built in brick. There is a circa 1840-50 extension facing the street. No. 3 has a rendered two-storey garden front, which is a recasing of the earlier structure from around 1840-50. It includes three windows with circa 1900 casements and flat grooved voussoir keyed arches above the ground-floor French windows. To the left, enclosed by a modern glazed porch, is the original early to mid 18th-century doorway featuring an eared architrave, a large keystone, and a heavy cornice. Between Nos. 1 and 3, on the garden side, is a lower two-storey link that has a large delicately detailed early 19th-century tripartite bow window with glazing bar sashes, panelled dividing pilasters, and a dentilled cornice. The street front from around 1840-50 has four sash windows with glazing bars. The interior of No. 3 includes a ground floor front room to the right that features mid 18th-century fielded panelling and an entablature to the door with a delicate carved spray. The screen wall on the street side is made of early to mid 18th-century brick set on a stone plinth and includes four oculi.