52, Stonegate

No. 52 Stonegate is a former house that has been converted into a shop, tea room, and flat. It dates from the late 15th century and was extended in the late 17th century. The building was refronted, raised, and further extended in the late 19th century, and it features a late 19th-century shopfront that was altered in 1964. The structure is timber-framed, now rendered and colour-washed at the front, with incised detailing at the rear. It has a pantile roof with a brick chimney stack.

The exterior is three stories high with a two-bay front, and the upper floors are jettied. The shopfront includes a doorcase with reeded pilasters and carved consoles at the top, leading to a door made of six raised and fielded panels beneath a radial-glazed fanlight, all set within a round-arched panelled architrave. The shop window consists of three plate glass lights with a roller blind, above a flush panelled reveal. A moulded cornice projects above the door. To the left, there is a door of six raised and fielded panels in a segment-headed opening that leads to Church Passage.

The first-floor windows are shallow bows, while the second-floor windows are tripartite sashes, all featuring 12-pane centre sashes. The building has boxed guttering. At the rear, it has three storeys and attics with two unequal gabled bays, the right one having plain bargeboards. The 20th-century fenestration is present at the rear.

The interior features timber-framing and includes an upper flight of a late 17th-century staircase with bulbous turned balusters and square newels topped with a moulded handrail.