1-7, Church Street

A house, likely dating to around the 15th century, that has been divided into four houses and was formerly a shop. It has undergone alterations and additions in the mid-19th and late 19th centuries. The construction is timber frame, with some areas rendered and exposed to the north, and partly refaced with coursed limestone, along with a painted brick addition all under a slate roof. Originally a hall house, it features a former open hall of two framed bays, with a former solar end to the north of one framed bay. Later additions exist to the north-east and south-west. The timber framing exhibits close studding with a middle rail. The building is two storeys and an attic. There are brick end-stacks, one to the left, a large ridge-stack off-centre to the right with pilaster shafts, a 20th-century external lateral brick stack to the front on the left, and an integral lateral brick stack to the later wing on the right. The left-hand side features two mid-19th century three-light wooden casements with transoms on each floor. A central half-glazed door is set within a bracketed porch. Two projecting gabled additions are on the right; the left one has a first-floor three-light segmental-headed casement and a ground-floor plate-glass shopfront with a blocked central door. The right-hand addition, probably mid-19th century, has a first-floor three-light 20th-century casement and a ground-floor shopfront with a three-light window to the right, a half-glazed door to the left, and a continuous fascia above. A rear entrance is located for No. 7. Internally, a former screens passage-wall remains between the first and second bays from the north, alongside close studding with a middle rail and a blocked four-centred arched doorway. Around 1600, a floor and stack were inserted into the two right-hand bays, featuring a chamfered and stopped fireplace lintel and jambs.