18 and 20, Cheshire Street

Nos. 18 and 20 Cheshire Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 17th century and has undergone alterations around 1900. The building is timber framed with plastered infill panels, and parts have been rebuilt and underbuilt in red brick. It features a plain tile roof and originally had a jettied first floor supported by a moulded and carved bressumer. The front and left-hand return front have closely spaced uprights with a middle rail and diagonal struts in rectangular panels, creating lozenge patterns.

The gable end slightly jetties and includes a moulded and ogee-stopped cambered tie-beam, along with three tiers of cusped quatrefoil square panels. The structure consists of two framed bays and has two storeys plus an attic, with plain barge boards and a central brick stack. On the first floor, there is a two-light 19th-century wooden casement window to the left, while the right features a late 20th-century shop front with a large plate-glass window. The circa 1900 shop front on the left corner has a pair of plate-glass windows flanked by chevron-ornamented recessed pilasters and a glazed door at the corner.

The left-hand return front has a three-light 19th-century wooden casement for the first floor and attic. There is a circa 1900 four-panelled door to the left, which has 17th-century ogee-stopped roll-moulded reveals, a narrow rectangular overlight, and a pilastered surround with shaped brackets above the bressumer. The right-hand gable end features a two-light chamfered-mullioned wooden casement. Inside, the building has a two-bay roof with a central collar and tie-beam truss, three queen struts, a king strut, and brick and wattle and daub infill. The gable end to the southwest has a collar and tie-beam truss with V-struts, and there are pairs of staggered purlins with straight wind braces, along with old floorboards.