3, Albert Place

No. 3 Albert Place is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and partly plastered, featuring exposed framing and a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The house has three bays facing southwest and includes a central chimney stack from the 19th century.

It is two storeys high, with the ground floor showcasing three early 19th-century sash windows, each with 12 lights and crown glass. The first floor has three early 19th-century sash windows with a configuration of 3+6 lights, also with crown glass. The entrance features an off-centre early 19th-century six-panel door, where the bottom panels are flush, the middle panels are fielded, and the top panels are glazed, although it has been damaged by sand-blasting. Above the door is a moulded flat canopy supported by profiled brackets.

The front elevation, right return, and the right half of the rear elevation are weatherboarded, while the remaining part of the rear elevation is plastered up to the first-floor level, with exposed original framing above, showing serpentine bracing that is trenched into the studs. On the first floor of the rear elevation, there is one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights and crown glass.

Inside, there are chamfered axial beams, one of which has empty mortices for soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and the joists are raised and plastered to the soffits. There are two 19th-century hearths that are back to back. Internal studded partitions have been removed, and there are jowled posts. In the right end wall, curved tension braces are trenched into the inside of the studding. The roof features queen struts with clasped purlins and is unceiled. A mutilated ogee doorhead at the left end appears to have been introduced in the 20th century. Originally, this house may have served as a service wing for the adjacent house, No. 1 Albert Place, but it has functioned as a separate house since the early 19th century.