5, Crown Street

This is a late medieval house with a shop, significantly altered in the 17th century and again in the mid to late 19th century. The building is timber-framed, now with a rendered exterior, and has a rendered brick shop front on the left. The cross wing on the left has an old plain tile roof, gabled at the front and half-hipped at the rear, while the range to the right has a mid to late 19th-century Welsh slate roof. A mid-19th century brick ridge stack sits at the roof’s apex, and a similar stack is located at the rear of the cross wing.

Originally a 15th-century house, it comprised a cross wing to the left of an open hall. In the late 16th or early 17th century, a stack and floor were inserted into the hall. The hall range was remodelled in the mid to late 19th century as part of a terrace. The building is two storeys high, with a four-window front. It has flat rendered arches over 20th-century two-light windows. The shop front, set within the gable end of the cross wing, features a horned plate-glass sash window and a half-glazed door. A 20th-century door is located on the right-hand range. There are two late 19th-century horned six-pane sashes to the left side wall of the cross wing. A 17th-century single-storey extension, rendered and with a gabled plain tile roof, projects from the rear of the cross wing.

Inside the cross wing are exposed timber frames and a two-bay common-rafter roof supported by a crown post, with longitudinal braces and curved down braces, resting on an arched-braced tie beam and jowled wall posts. The rear of the cross wing has been truncated, likely in the 17th century. The former open hall retains its wall plates, jowled wall posts, and a smoke-blackened crown-post roof at its rear. It is thought the open-hall range was built before the cross wing.