Cawthorne

No. 51 Cawthorne is a house that was formerly an antique showroom and is now a restaurant. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and further changes in the late 19th century. The building was restored in the 1980s by architects Kirby Adair. It has a timber-framed structure with a plastered front and a colour-washed brick wall on the left side. The roof is made of old tiles and is set behind a parapet, above a modillioned wooden cornice.

The house has a long single-range plan with a central entrance. The large room on the left side features a fireplace at the far end, while the central staircase hall is unheated. There are two rooms on the west side, one of which may have been an office and the other a dining room that is served by a kitchen in the rear outshoot.

The exterior is two storeys high with attics. The front elevation includes five irregularly spaced, flush-set 16-pane sash windows with projecting architrave surrounds. The ground floor has four similar but taller windows, with a moulded wood band above them that indicates the original jettied first floor. The central doorway features a recessed tie beam with mortices for braces that have since been removed. The attics display exposed rafters with mortices for collars, suggesting that the ceiling was raised. Reused timber includes a purlin with diamond mortices, which was previously a window plate. The roof has four hip-roofed casement dormers, a half-hipped right end, and a red brick chimneystack with a projecting band and three tapered square terracotta pots on the left side. The interior has not been inspected.