8, Broad Street

No. 8, Broad Street is a shop and dwelling, featuring an 18th-century facade built onto an earlier structure. The front is roughcast timber-frame, with a 20th-century plain tile roof and a 19th-century brick stack at the rear right. The building is two storeys and an attic, with a two-window front. It has 18th-century 6/6 sash windows in broad, moulded architraves, with three isolated enriched consoles, each containing a fire mark. The eaves feature wooden modillions. There are two 20th-century restored gable dormers containing early 19th-century 6/6 sash windows. The ground floor has an early 20th-century shopfront, with a central two-leaf, two-panelled door with shutters above, and a decorative overlight, flanked by plate glass windows with pilasters and a cornice. The interior of the shopfront is recessed under a deep overhang, with a plastered ceiling supported by cast-iron columns. There is an enriched base to the corner frame post, and a mutilated plate to the right. A 19th-century plank door in a beaded case, with painted weather boarding, is located to the right. The property was a draper's shop owned by the Poyner family since the 19th century and retains a range of fixtures and fittings.