The Merchants House

The Merchants House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It features painted brick front elevations and a plain tiled roof with a red brick stack that is shared with the adjacent No 15 on the right. The building has two storeys and an attic, originally designed with a lobby entry plan before it was subdivided around 1840.

The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door, flanked by two flush framed twenty-paned hung sash windows set in flat arches. On the first floor, there are three smaller, similar windows. The house also has two gabled dormer windows with 20th-century casements and a plastered plinth.

Inside, the house retains an exposed floor frame and an original hearth with lamp niches, one of which is made of clunch and features a mollet of the De Veres family. There is possibly a reused piscina that bears the device of the Earls of Oxford, along with various pieces of a statue of a female religious figure that were discovered in the internal walls during renovations in 1976.