Garmston House

Garmston House is a building that now functions as a shop with offices above. It dates from the late 17th century and incorporates part of a late 12th-century structure. The building was refronted and extended around 1772, converted into a theatre and cinema around 1911, and restored and reconverted in 1991. The exterior features coursed rubble and brick with a stucco front, and it has slate roofs with two side wall stacks.

Architectural details include chamfered quoins, a projecting pedimented center, a modillion cornice, and a parapet with balustrade panels. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range with renewed glazing. The full-width wooden shopfront, added in 1991, is designed in a pastiche 19th-century style, featuring a central panelled double door with a fanlight flanked by turned double columns. On either side are segment-arched shop windows, each flanked by a single column. Above the shopfront, there is a central round-arched window with Ionic flanking pilasters, entablatures, a moulded head, and a keystone. On either side of this window are Venetian windows of similar design, each with a corbelled sill.

The interior is known to contain a late 12th-century twinned recess in the north wall, featuring shallow pointed arches and joggled voussoirs. Fragments of a 17th-century roof, altered around 1765, are also present.