Thomas Sykes Antiques

Thomas Sykes Antiques is a house that has been converted into showrooms. It dates from the late 16th century and has undergone alterations in the 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It has two bays facing northwest and an additional bay extending to the right, featuring an 18th-century external stack at the end. There is a rear wing at the left end with a stack at the junction, and a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension at the rear left. A Victorian extension made of red brick is located in the rear right angle, running parallel to the front range and projecting to the right.

The building is two storeys high and features two 18th-century two-storey splayed bays, each with three early 19th-century sash windows of 12 lights on both storeys. These windows have moulded eared architraves with projecting imitation keystones and small brackets under the sills. Above the central door is a tripartite sash window with 4-12-4 lights. The main entrance has a six-panel door set within an 18th-century doorcase that includes pilasters, a frieze, and a dentilled pediment, flanked by contemporary sash windows of 4 + 4 lights. The building retains much of its original crown glass.

Inside, there are jowled posts, heavy studding, and mortices for curved tension braces that are trenched to the outside at the rear. The wallplates feature edge-halved and bridled scarfs, and there are three diamond mortices along with a shutter rebate for an unglazed window in the rear wallplate. There is some evidence of a former oriel window where the current left bay is located. The interior also includes chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, a clasped purlin roof with high arched collars, and an 18th-century wood-burning hearth in the left rear corner of the main range. An unusual Victorian staircase in the rear range features Gothic Revival lower posts and turned newels topped with acorn finials.