Court House

The building is a house, originally a row of shops and cottages, dating to the 17th century, with later additions in the late 18th and 19th centuries and restored around 1988. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and internal timber framing, and has a slate roof with a single gable stack on the north-east side. The two-storey, four-bay street front has a pair of off-centre doorways, each with punch-dressed jambs and lintels. To the right of the doorways are two two-light mullion casements in flush ashlar surrounds; to the left is a central doorway flanked by similar mullion casements. Above the ground floor are four more two-light windows under the eaves, aligned above the lower windows, with a smaller eaves window in the first bay. A stair window with leaded glass and a tooled ashlar surround is between bays three and four. The north-east gable wall has a large external stack flanked by single 17th-century chamfered ashlar casements; above these are 20th-century casements in flush ashlar surrounds. Internally, the building features three pairs of full-height cruck timbers with trenched purlins, struts, small upper collars and a ridge piece. There is a small four-centred arched chimney piece, and a large ashlar fireplace with a keystone lintel.