22 And 22A, Church Street

The building at 22 and 22A Church Street is a pair of houses, formerly a single property and formerly the Duke's Head Inn, dating from the late 15th century, with alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a painted brick front, and has a gabled roof covered in clay plain tiles. The structure extends over two storeys with attics and cellars.

The exterior features three pedimented dormers with modillioned cornices, each containing 20th-century six-pane, side-hung casement windows. A painted timber modillioned cornice runs along the eaves, with a raised brick band highlighting the storey height over the southern part of the façade. The central part of the façade projects slightly, displaying a flush, double-hung sash window with wide glazing bars on the first floor. The ground floor is slightly wider and features an elliptical door opening with a projecting keystone and impost blocks. The door itself is recessed, featuring four raised-and-fielded panels above two flush panels, topped with a fanlight comprised of five radial glass panes. The recessed southern portion has tripartite double-hung sash windows with small panes on both floors and in the cellar. The northern recessed section incorporates a 19th-century public house front, featuring a tripartite double-hung sash window which formerly served as a side window. The public house front includes a simple fascia with console end stops and a canted entrance door on the corner with Currents Lane, complemented by a cast-iron 19th-century street name plate. A two-storey gabled extension exists at the rear, along with a single-storey outbuilding that was formerly part of the public house, with a roof of part slate, and part clay pantiles.

Inside No. 22, timber framing is exposed, particularly on the southeast flank, where a wall of good studwork is visible, including two door openings, one topped with a four-centred arch. A spine beam has broad, flat chamfers. The rear wall stack contains a chamfered marled beam, partially exposed, dating back to around 1600. A 19th-century staircase features bold turned balusters, and a ventilator screen above a partition on the first floor incorporates short, turned bobbins. C17 panelling decorates the southeast flank wall. The first floor showcases double spine beams from the 17th century, complete with elaborate chamfer stops, moulded spreader blocks, and waggon chamfer decorations. A portion of the framed gable wall is exposed in the attic, revealing reused late medieval and 17th-century rafters. No. 22A also exhibits chamfered spine beams and a substantial rear wall post on the first floor, alongside reused etched glass from the former public house use. The cellar has rubble stone walls. The original complex likely incorporated numbers 20 and 21.