10, Church Street

No. 10 Church Street is a house that was later used as an inn and shop. It is dated 1654 and was remodeled in the mid-18th century. The building is timber framed, partly rebuilt, and has its eaves raised in rendered brick. It features a plain tile roof and consists of two framed bays over two storeys and a basement. There is a plat band and a dentil brick eaves cornice, with an integral brick end stack on the left side. The front has two windows; the first-floor features 4-pane sash windows with stone cills. To the left is an early 19th-century former shop window, which has a small paned flat-roofed canted bay with a moulded cornice and a boarded basement door underneath. To the right is a mid-19th-century flat-roofed canted bay with a dentil cornice. The central entrance has a two-leaf, four-panelled door with a bracketed gabled porch, accessed by two steps with twisted wrought-iron handrails. There is also a boarded passageway door to the right and a reset datestone above the entrance. Inside, the building features a timber framed square-panelled cross wall, pairs of chamfered spine beams, and a large open fireplace in the left-hand ground-floor room with a chamfered lintel. The right-hand ground-floor room has a corner fireplace and a wall cupboard with H-hinges. This house was once known as The Sun or Rising Sun Inn, and in 1834 it became the shop for Weatherbys, the clockmakers, which likely coincides with the installation of the shop window.