22, Church Street

House, shop and abattoir, now house. 18th century, altered in early 19th century, incorporating an 18th century fragment. Timber framed and plastered, with facade of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate and handmade red plain tiles. House facing north-west, with stack in left wall; shop to right, with wing to rear of it, with stack in right wall; one bay of a 17th century building beyond. 19th century abattoir beyond, at right angles to wing, with 20th century link. The right side is bounded by Swan Yard, with rear access from it. 20th century single-storey lean-to extension to rear of house, with slate roof.

Two storeys. Ground floor has one early 19th century sash window of 16 lights with flat arch of gauged brick and some crown glass. Traditional butcher's shopfront has 2 windows of 35 lights, the upper parts openable, with blocked central door; above the door a row of turned balusters and a pierced panel with St. Andrew's cross pattern; reeded pilasters and architrave with paterae. First floor has 2 sashes similar to that on the ground floor, and early 19th century sash over main door with semi-circular arch of gauged brick, Gothick tracery and crown glass. Early 19th century 6-panel door, the bottom panels flush, the others moulded, in doorcase with plain overlight, panelled jambs and soffit; the formerly reeded pilasters have been replaced by plain planks, retaining a fragment of reeded architrave and paterae above. Plain band above first-floor windows, plain parapet.

The brickwork was re-pointed in 1985, and repaired above the shopfront and main door. Two roofs of shallow pitch, gabled to the rear. The brick facade extends along the right return of the shop only, with 2 20th century windows in original apertures with semi-circular arches of gauged brick.

The abattoir is partly of painted brick, partly timber framed and weatherboarded, with a half-hipped roof of tiles.

The entrance hall to left of the shop has an early 19th century straight stair with turned newels, moulded handrail, stick balusters and scrolled tread-ends. The room to the right has an 18th century wood-burning hearth with an alcove each side with semi-elliptical head and panelled cupboards. Similar hearth behind shop. The butcher's shop has a transverse plain beam supported at the right end by a bolted cast iron bracket, probably original. In the rear wall of the shop is a borrowed light of 20 panes, with crown glass; it is original to this position but is reported to have been removed and stored for approximately 15 years, replaced in 1985; the panes are horizontal. Mixed hardwood and softwood framing with primary straight bracing. The framing of the rear bay is of hardwood, fully jointed and pegged, with primary straight bracing; deeply chamfered axial beam, re-used tiebeam at rear.

A photograph of circa 1900 in the possession of the owner shows the butcher's shop as Brownings, with a coved lead canopy, a gas lamp bracketed to the corner, and the doorcase fully reeded; side windows blocked.