16-22, CONEY STREET

16-22 Coney Street is a group of three former houses, now used as shops and offices, dating back to around 1500, with alterations made in the 18th century. Nos. 20 and 22 were extended in the 19th century, and No. 16 underwent modernisation and an extension at the rear in the 20th century. The buildings are timber-framed, plastered, and whitewashed, topped with pantile roofs and brick stacks.

The exterior features three parallel ranges that are three bays deep and three storeys high, with attics and jettied upper floors. Each range has one gabled bay. No. 16 has a shopfront framed by timber pilaster piers and a moulded cornice with attached rosettes. It includes plate glass windows over brick risers, flanking glazed double doors with a Tudor arched head set in a canted screen of linenfold panels. The first floor has a canted bay oriel window with 8- and 16-pane sashes beneath a moulded cornice, while the second floor features an unequal 12-pane sash. The entrance to No. 18 is located in an extension on New Street.

No. 20 has a shopfront with panelled pilasters, a wide fascia, and a moulded cornice, featuring a glazed door to the left of a plate glass window. The first floor has a similar oriel window with a 20-pane centre sash, and the second floor has paired 9-pane lights. The shopfront of No. 22 includes grooved, tapering pilasters and a wide fascia between heavy coved brackets, with a plate glass door in a panelled doorway. The first and second floor windows are 1-pane sashes, and the attic has a 2x6-pane horizontal sliding sash.

Inside, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England records an early 19th-century staircase in Nos. 16-18, an 18th-century fireplace on the first floor of No. 20, and early 19th-century fittings. No. 22 features two early 17th-century panelled doors and an 18th-century staircase.