Baytrees Restaurant And Osborn'S Shop

Baytrees Restaurant and Osborn's Shop is a building that consists of two shops with flats above, originally serving as an inn. It dates from the 17th century and has been altered and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. The structure is timber framed and plastered, featuring mock timbering on the main elevations. The main roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles, while the rear ranges are roofed in slate.

Inside, there are two internal square brick stacks rising in the outer roof valleys. The building has four parallel wings that face Little Square, each two bays deep. There are two rear two-storey out-shuts that extend eastward, leading to various two and three-storey timber frame and brick outbuildings, which are now used as shops with storage that front onto Drury Lane.

The building is two storeys high with attics. The ground floor features a late 19th-century shopfront that spans the entire width, divided into four bays by pilasters and tripartite glazing. There are splayed entrance doorways at each end with glazed 20th-century doors. The first floor has 19th-century sash windows, with the two right-hand gables featuring larger frames and sashes that have central glazing bars, wide surrounds, and simple flat pediments above. The left-hand gables have smaller multi-paned sashes, and the left-hand attics contain small altered 19th-century sashes. The shopfront wraps around to each return elevation, where various multi-paned sashes are present at the first floor level.

On the rear elevation, one gable has a horizontal sliding sash window in the attic with two twelve-pane lights. Internally, the bridging joists have chamfers with lambs tongue stops. The first-floor front room in the right-hand half of the building has a raised ceiling, indicating it was once a larger assembly room. Other 19th-century internal features include grates, a dado rail, and doors. In the 19th century, the building was known as the "Lion and Lamb" Inn.