Bloomfields

Bloomfields comprises shops with residential flats above, dating back to the 16th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with gabled plain tile roofs. The exterior is two storeys with a three-window range. The first floor has some ashlar rendering and sash windows; the left window has one vertical glazing bar, the central window has margin glazing, and the right window is tripartite with plate glass. The ground floor has three shop fronts beneath a continuous, canted-out fascia with small consoles and blind boxes. The shop on the left is 20th century, with a recessed entrance. The central shop is 19th century, featuring deep angled corner mullions, an original door with fanlight and raised-and-fielded lower panel, and a 3-light plate-glass window. The shop on the right (No. 106) is 20th century, with a fanlight and plate-glass window. A ridge stack is located at the south-east end. A formerly separate 19th-century outhouse range now connects to the front with a large, concealed flat roof. The taller section of the outhouse range has a Welsh slate roof hipped to the north-west and gabled to the south-east, with a tall stack. The lower block has a machine-made plain tile roof. The taller block of the outhouse has sash windows with margin glazing. There are two superimposed lean-to roofs to the rear of the outhouse, one with Welsh slate and one with plain tiles. No. 106 has a two-storey rendered 18th-century rear extension with a gabled plain tile roof.

The interior of the main building is a timber-framed house, likely originally jettied towards the street. The ground floor rooms are arranged in two short bays and one longer bay. The two short bays originally housed rooms at first-floor level, with connecting doors in the centre of their partitions. Remnants of a crown-post roof remain, including thin longitudinal bracing. The north-western rooms have a shutter groove in the front wall plate, indicating former windows. The two end rooms have spine beams on their first floors, and the framing of the wider bay shows a trimmed gap in the spine beam, possibly for stairs or a chimney stack. The posts are jowled. The rear wall has a later stack with a late 18th-century fireplace, featuring a moulded shelf and shouldered architrave, and a 19th-century cast-iron Gothic grate.