1 Chapel Street

The building at 1 Chapel Street is a shop with living accommodation above, dating to around the late 16th or early 17th century. It was extended in the mid-17th century and again in the late 19th century. The front of the building is timber-framed with roughcast panels, and has a gable end, with a brick rear wing. The roof is covered with plain tiles, with gable ends; the rear wing has a slate roof. A stack is not visible from the road.

The original front range is a single bay and a single room wide. A mid-17th century rear wing was added, which was further extended in the late 19th century to the south. The front range is one storey and has an attic. The front has a small section of exposed timber framing above a 20th-century shop front, which has a recessed bowed window and a 20th-century aerial in the small gable above. The east side has the blank gable end of the front range on the right, and a painted brick rear wing with a casement window on the first floor. To the left is a later 19th-century red brick rear wing, with a twelve-pane sash window on the first floor and 20th-century garage doors below.

On the ground floor, the front room has unchamfered cross-beams and exposed joists. The back room features an ovolo-moulded axial beam with run-out stops, exposed joists and a large fireplace at the rear, with an unchamfered timber lintel supporting an exposed post above. The attic chamber over the front range has exposed timber framing in the gable ends, including studs and large tie-beams with a collar; the right-hand (west) tie beam has a segmental head carved from its soffit, likely indicating a former doorway. The attic also shows exposed purlins and wind-braces at the front. The chamber over the rear wing is ceiled. The roof contains common rafters on a diagonally-set ridge-piece, with principal rafters at the gable ends; the east gable has broad cusped diagonal braces. The rear wing's roof was replaced in the 19th century.

The building is noted in the book "Tom Brown's School Days" by Thomas Hughes, when it operated as a butcher’s shop, and is mentioned in a scene where the protagonist purchases steak.