Templar House

Two houses, originally a house and shop, were built in the late 18th or early 19th century and have undergone later alterations. The houses are constructed of ashlar limestone walls with limestone dressings and coursed limestone rubble, along with 19th-century brick. They have Welsh slated roofs and three ashlar stacks, each with a single shaft and moulded cornices. The building is two storeys high and includes a cellar and rear ranges. Doorways and window openings have flush keystones to flat arches. There are two entrances, one with a recessed six-panelled door and the other a replacement door, both featuring round-headed fanlights and patterned cast iron glazing bars. Ashlar blocking is present on the left-hand ground floor bay, containing an inserted 16-paned hung sash window, while two similar ground floor windows are located to the right hand. Five smaller windows are on the first floor. A cast iron boot scraper is situated on the right-hand side of the door. The building was formerly a grocer’s shop, ceasing trade in 1850 and subsequently purchased by L.C. Gilbert, a builder and contractor, who removed 18th-century shop fittings to his workshop adjoining No. 2 London Road.