40, Load Street

No. 40 Load Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 17th century but was clad in the late 18th century and raised in the mid-20th century. The building features a timber frame covered in brick with a flat roof. It stands three storeys tall with a stone-coped parapet.

The façade has a total of five windows on the upper floors, arranged as three on the left and two on the right. The upper windows are glazing bar sashes with plastered wedge lintels and stone sills, while the second-floor windows have similar designs but with concrete lintels. The ground floor has an entrance located at the left corner, which features a 17th-century boarded door adorned with wrought iron spikes at the top and strap hinges.

The shop front is pilastered and includes scroll brackets supporting a dentilled cornice. The central entrance to the shop has an overlight and a two-leaf half-glazed door, flanked by plate glass windows. To the right, there is a recessed portion with a plate glass window beneath a stone wedge lintel.

Inside, the building retains exposed beams from the 17th-century structure, including a console bracket supporting the jetty that is visible in the passageway. Additionally, there is some reset small square panelling with a frieze on the first floor.