4, Church Street

This is a building comprising flats above a shop, dating from 1702 with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is built of brick, with a rendered plinth, ashlar quoins and a string course. The roof is tiled, hipped, and has an ashlar-coped parapet to the front, with brick eaves stacks to the rear, featuring 20th-century shafts above a cogged dentil string course. The building’s plan includes a front range and a gabled central rear wing.

The exterior is three storeys high, including a cellar, and has a five-window front. The first floor features brick segmental arches, now containing inserted 19th-century transomed casements, with raised keystones over the central arches. The ground floor to the left has two transomed casements with stone corniced heads, all set beneath a rendered fascia capped with a string course. A doorcase with pilasters, a plain entablature, and a top-light sits above a 6-panelled oak door with raised and fielded panels. A central segmental-arched covered way has an ovolo-moulded frame and a boarded door. A double-fronted shop front has been added to the right. A tablet above the string course bears the inscription stating that it was set here by John Foxall in 1702.

The rear elevation has scattered 20th-century windows in the front bay, and flanking bays with part-projecting brick stacks. The second floor features 20th-century casements, and there are single-storey gabled projecting wings.

The interior contains a vaulted stone cellar. A ground-floor cupboard niche has a fluted pilastered surround and a glazed door with a pierced dew-drop fanlight; this niche originally housed a dog-wheel. The first floor has a chamfered bridging beam with ogee chamfer stops.