No 9 And Oddfellows Hall

No. 9 and Oddfellows Hall is a house, now comprising two shops and a flat, with a rear range of two houses, currently used as a club. It was likely built around 1730-60, with later additions and alterations, including a linking range and a 19th-century shop front on the left side. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond, featuring flat arches of red gauged brick. It has ashlar cornices and sills, and a double-pitch plain tile roof to the front range, with brick stacks having cornices. The rear range has a slate roof, hipped at the rear.

The two-storey front range has five first-floor windows, and the two-storey rear range has eight windows arranged as 3:2:3. The first floor windows are flush sashes with six-over-six panes and flat arches. A three-course band sits above the windows, topped by a crowning frieze and a modillion cornice. The ground floor has a central entrance with a six-fielded-panel door, set within deep reveals and a timber architrave with a pulvinated frieze and pediment. Remaining elements of the 19th-century shop front include pilaster strips and a renewed plate-glass window to the left, a part-glazed door to the right, and a boarded door to the left. The rear range shows distinct stages of construction; the two leftmost bays are blind, with flat arches. The first floor has a round-arched staircase sash with Gothic glazing bars to the head, an inserted casement window, an eight-over-eight sash, and three six-over-six sashes. The ground floor consists of two blind openings, an entrance with a six-panel door and fanlight with Gothick glazing bars set within a doorcase with corbel brackets, a six-over-six sash, another entrance with a four-panel door and overlight, and a wide casement window. Most windows have cambered arches; those on the left are in plain reveals, and those on the right are flush. The left side has a crowning ashlar cornice and a modillion eaves cornice.

The rear garden facade is two storeys high with three first-floor windows. These are mainly six-over-six sashes with flat arches of rubbed brick and keystones in plain reveals and sills.

The interior of the rear range was altered around 1800 and later, but retains original plasterwork and joinery, including a dogleg staircase to the entrance hall, featuring a wreathed handrail, stick balusters and carved tread ends. A further dogleg staircase, with turned balusters, is located to the rear of the main range. Double doors lead from the entrance hall to a front reception room. The first floor retains six-panel doors. The attic has exposed trenched purlins, principal rafters, and collar beams, along with two cast-iron fireplaces.

The rear range has served as an Oddfellows Hall since 1923. New Street was renamed from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Historical records describe New Street, in the 16th and 17th centuries, as a street of dwelling houses with workshops behind.