13, BEATRICE STREET (See details for further address information)

This building, located at 13 Beatrice Street, is a house that was later used as an inn and is now divided into shops. It dates from the late 16th century but may include parts of an earlier structure, along with later additions and alterations. The building features a timber frame with plaster and red brick infill, which has been largely painted to resemble the front, and has a slate roof.

The structure consists of a long central range, which may have originally been open to the roof, with projecting gables on the left, right, and center, the right gable forming a cross-wing. There are 19th-century single-storey lean-to additions situated between the main range and the gables. The building has one storey and an attic, with the gables rising to two storeys. The fenestration is irregular, featuring 20th-century casements on the first floor of the left and center gables, and a contemporary fixed-light stained glass window on the right gable. There is a gabled half-dormer between the left and center gables, with the left gable containing a 19th-century fixed-light window on the ground floor. The lean-to additions have 19th-century shopfronts, and there are four doors, including one on the right made of planks, likely moved from a passageway behind. The right gable has a late 20th-century shopfront. A prominent axial red brick ridge stack is located behind the center gable, with a reddish-brown stack on the left gable.

The framing is exposed on the left and right returns of the cross-wing at the rear, in the passageway, on the back wall of the main range, and on the right wall of the twin-gabled range at the rear, featuring large square panels. Inside, the timber frame is exposed throughout, with close studding on the ground floor of the main range and square panels elsewhere. The ceiling beams are chamfered with a variety of stops. A massive stone stack includes an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel on the ground floor. The first floor features roof trusses of the Queen-strut type with double purlins and short straight windbraces exposed, with three short bays in the left gable and two unequal bays in the main range, the left bay being of considerable width.