56, Willow Street

56 Willow Street is a house that was later used as an inn and is now part of a garage. It dates from the late 16th century and has had some additions and alterations over time. The building is timber framed with plaster and red brick infill, and it features a slate roof. It has an L-plan layout, with a street frontage that includes 2 or 3 framed bays and a long 4-bay range at the rear, although the end bay has been removed and completely rebuilt.

The house is two storeys high. The left side of the long range displays exposed framing with large square and rectangular panels, three of which extend from the cill to the wall-plate, while some wattle and daub infill is visible beneath the plastered panels. The street frontage has two three-light horizontal sliding sash windows without glazing bars located below the eaves. On the ground floor, there is a late 20th-century top-hung casement window to the left and a contemporary shop front to the left of the former carriage entrance, which now features a late 20th-century trade sign above it. A reddish-brown brick ridge stack is positioned to the right, along with a large stone stack that has a red brick shaft at the junction with the range at the rear. There is also a staircase projection at the back where the long range meets.

Inside, a moulded bressumer along the right side of the long range indicates that it was once jettied. The main ground-floor rooms have chamfered ceiling beams, some of which have straight-cut stops. The roof trusses of the long range were covered by wallpaper during the last survey in August 1985. The flat-roofed late 20th-century rebuilding of the former end bay of the long range is not considered to have special architectural interest.