21, Church Street

21 Church Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates back to around 1600, with alterations made around 1780 and a street front added around 1880. The building features ashlar stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof with a single white brick chimney. The rear section of the house, which is from 1600, has been altered around 1780 and is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a pantile roof, featuring a single gable stack.

The building is three storeys high. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, while the upper floors each have a pair of plain sash windows set in chamfered ashlar surrounds. The rear house is two storeys with a two-room plan. The west front includes a central doorway with double panel doors, flanked by single boarded sash windows, and above are two similar windows, all with flush ashlar surrounds. The top left and bottom right windows show evidence of larger earlier window surrounds, although this is obscured by later render on the other windows.

The east front has two glazing bar windows and a small blocked opening between them, along with a section of chamfered band. Above, there is another small blocked opening and to the left, a two-light glazing bar casement is set within a large, partly blocked, six-light chamfered cross mullion window.

Inside, the rear range features a good quality late 18th-century fireplace on the ground floor and above it, a fine stone fireplace with a four-centred arch dating to around 1600. The roof timbers have been dendro-dated to 1584-1585 and consist of three trusses with lapped collars and queen post struts on tie beams, although the northern truss is partly collapsed. The purlins and some braces to the principal rafters remain intact.