255, Victoria Avenue

This is a shop with living accommodation above, built in the 15th century, altered in the 17th and 19th centuries. It originally served as the service end and passage to a larger 15th-century hall house. The building is timber frame construction with rendered and whitewashed walls, and has plaintile roofs.

The plan incorporates two rooms, a front shop (on the east side), and an arcaded passage extending to the south with a first-floor chamber.

The east front is two storeys high with a two-window range. The ground floor of the north-gabled section was rebuilt in the late 17th century and contains two 19th-century canted bay windows separated by a doorway. Two boarded 2/2 sash windows are on the first floor, the left-hand window inserted between the service gable and the main gable. The main roof is gabled, with a hip to the west. There's an 18th-century stack on the north roof slope, and another similar stack on the north roof slope of the passage range.

The north return shows exposed studs and 20th-century blockwork at the east end, with the remainder weatherboarded. The south elevation of the passage has no openings. The main block projects to the west, featuring a single-storey outshut to the east with a weatherboarded ground floor and a doorway, and two boarded first-floor windows. The west elevation also has a single-storey outshut and one boarded first-floor window.

The interior of the north service range was originally divided into three rooms, but the partitions have been removed. The principal studs have jowled tops and formerly had arched braces in three directions; the secondary studs are of heavy scantling. A 19th-century brick stack with a bread oven is located at the west end. The passage has arched braces to the south wall, defining two previously open arcade bays. A 4-centred doorway with hollow-mouldings leads into the main range; an adjacent 18th-century four-panelled door has HL hinges. A modern staircase has been inserted. The south-west outshut contains an 18th-century fireplace.

The first floor of the main range has a three-bay crown-post roof with two free-standing posts of rebated cruciform section, with arched braces in four directions. The tie beams are cambered with hollow chamfers and arched braces to the principal studs. There are also secondary rafters. A 4-centred doorway on the south side, originally with hollow-mouldings, is now blocked by an inserted stack. The passageway chamber roof has 17th-century tie beams, principals and collars. A late 17th-century cellar has been fitted with inserted 20th-century timber posts.