Deacons Newsagents

Deacons Newsagents is a house, now a shop and residential property, dating to around 1700, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building is primarily timber-framed and plastered, with a painted brick facade and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. It is a single-span range facing northwest, with an internal stack on the right side. A rear tower, originally a stair or closet, features a hipped roof at the right end. A single-storey wing, with a slate roof, was added to the rear of the left end, projecting outwards. A single-storey lean-to extension with a slate roof sits behind the main range. The building is two storeys high. The ground floor has a 19th-century splayed bay shop window and a single 19th-century sash window with marginal lights. The first floor has two early 19th-century sashes of 16 lights and a blind aperture above the door. There is a half-glazed door under a simple flat canopy supported by scrolled brackets, with one stone step leading up to it. The facade is slightly asymmetrical, even before the 19th-century modifications. A band of three courses of rubbed red brick with fine mortar joints is visible at first floor level. A dentilled eaves cornice runs along the top. The roof is hipped. Exposed girts are present in the end walls. A single early 19th-century sash window of 3 + 6 lights is located on the first floor of the rear tower. The left ground floor room, now part of the shop, has had the rear wall removed but retains a moulded plaster cornice with an egg-and-dart design. The ceiling in this room is plaster, moulded in high relief with an oval central panel containing a foliated wreath, shells, flowers, and fruits. Deeds dating from around 1750 are held by the owner.