24 And 25, Load Street

Nos 24 and 25 on Load Street is a house that has been converted into two shops. It dates from the early 17th century but was refronted in the early 19th century, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is clad in rendered brick, topped with a slate roof and a stack at the rear.

It stands three storeys tall with boxed wooden eaves. The front has two types of windows: on the second floor, there are 8-pane horizontally sliding sashes, while the first floor features 16-pane sashes set in moulded architraves. The ground floor includes a bow window on the left, with an entrance at the left-hand corner that has a door with two glazed panels topped by Gothick heads. There is a roughly central entrance leading to a passage, also with a moulded wooden architrave. To the right, there is a square bay shop window with four lights, and an entrance to the left of this window that has a half-glazed door.

Inside, the building has a moulded bressummer visible in the shop window on the right, a heavily moulded beam in the right-hand first floor room, and other beams that are stop-chamfered.