23, Church Street

No. 23 Church Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, bakery, and residence. It dates from the early 18th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with a plastered and weatherboarded exterior, and is topped with a roof of handmade red plain tiles.

The main part of the building has a parallelogram shape and faces southeast, featuring two rear wings, with the right wing being the longer of the two. Each wing has an internal stack. At the back of the left wing, there is a single-storey lean-to extension from the 19th or 20th century, which has a slate roof. The structure has two storeys and an attic.

On the ground floor, there is a late 19th-century shopfront that includes two large projecting windows, a glazed door, and an overlight with a four-centred arch. It is flanked by three plain pilasters and has a fascia with a moulded canopy, along with three stone steps leading up to it. The early 19th-century bow window features sashes with a configuration of 4-12-4 lights, made with crown glass.

On the first floor, there are two early 19th-century sashes with 12 lights, also made with crown glass. The entrance features a six-panel door from the early 19th century, where the bottom panels are flush and the others are fielded, set within a heavily reeded architrave that has paterae and a moulded shallow canopy. The building has a moulded eaves cornice that runs along the full length of the left return. The left return also has a 20th-century weatherboarded dado, while the rest of the building is plastered.

At the rear of the lean-to, there is a bow window similar to the one at the front, which is likely a re-set feature. Additionally, there is a 19th-century casement window located in a hipped dormer on the rear hip of the left wing.