44, Shambles

No. 44 on Shambles is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the late 15th century and was refronted in the late 18th century, with mid-19th century alterations and a shopfront added. The building was renovated in 1954. It features a timber frame with a front made of buff-orange brick in English garden-wall bond, while the rear is rendered. The roof is covered with pantiles and has a brick stack, with timber guttering supported by paired modillions.

The exterior is three stories high with a one-window front. The shop has a glazed door with a divided overlight to the left of a two-by-eight pane horizontal sliding sash window. The first and second floors have four-pane hung sash windows. At the rear, the building has three stories and an attic, with a one-window gable wall that exposes the timber frame. The windows here are also horizontal sliding sashes, featuring three-by-twelve panes on the ground floor and two or three-by-six panes on the first and second floors and in the attic.

Inside, the timber frame remains largely intact across all floors. There is a close string staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail that rises around an open well to the second floor.