The Coach Public House (Number 103)

The Coach Public House, at number 103, is a group of four tenements originally built in the mid-14th century and subsequently altered. Initially constructed for Holy Trinity Priory, the row of seven tenements was reduced when the remainder was demolished in 1961. Number 101 has a 19th-century rear wing, while number 103 has a 17th-century wing. The front of the building was refaced in the mid-18th century and again in the 20th century, with alterations occurring in the early 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is timber-framed with brick and wattle-and-daub infilling, now partially obscured by rough-cast render. The 17th-century wing is constructed of orange-brown brick in a random bond, while the 19th-century wing uses mottled brick in an English garden-wall bond. It has a steeply pitched roof covered with slate at the front and concrete pantiles at the rear, with brick stacks at the rear of number 99 and in the wing of number 103.

Originally, each tenement was one bay wide and one bay deep. The front has a two-storey, four-bay jettied design. A 20th-century fluted doorcase with part-glazed double doors and divided overlight is located to the left of centre, alongside a small-paned window with a top-hung light. The remains of a blocked original doorway are visible, featuring two jowled posts and a lintel, with a partially restored wall plate above. To the right of centre is a 20th-century six-panel door within an early 19th-century doorcase of grooved pilasters, damaged flat hood on brackets, and a blocked divided overlight. Flanking windows are mid-19th-century shop windows with four large panes and moulded timber sills, set within grooved pilaster frames with a plain frieze and moulded cornice on grooved brackets. The first floor has oriel windows; the left one with early 19th-century small-pane sashes and the right one with 20th-century casements. Further right are early 19th-century 16-pane sashes.

Internally, fireplaces have been removed, but some early chimney flues remain at the rear of the end left bay and to the right of centre bay. Traces of jowled posts and curved braces are visible on the first floor. The roof contains four crown post trusses with curved raking struts, with a fifth truss reportedly embedded in the right end wall, representing a remarkably well-preserved example. The attic walls are largely of wattle and daub.