26 Church Street

A timber-framed building dating from the C17 or earlier, with an C18 brick frontage and early-C19 pair of shopfronts.

MATERIALS: timber-framed, with a brick frontage and plain clay tiled roof.

PLAN: rectilinear with extensions to the rear.

EXTERIOR: the exterior has a blue-red brick frontage with red brick dressings to the quoins and upper windows. There is a pedimented Roman Doric doorway with three steps leading up to a six-panel door, four panels fielded, two flush, with oblong fanlights with glazing bars and the reveal has a surround of reeded pilasters, paterae, reeded frieze and cornice. There are early-C19 three-light shopfronts either side of the door, each with panelled Doric pilasters and entablatures, and slender glazing bars. There are three architrave windows to the first floor and a wooden dentil cornice. The right side (south elevation) is jettied and rendered with one small square window. The later, back wing is largely of brick with some timber framework and the back elevation of the main block is of a timber frame with some colour-washed brick nogging.