3 And 4, The Square

THE SQUARE 1. 5252 (West Side) Nos 3 and 4 (formerly listed as No 50 Bell Street) TL 4837 1481:3/40 6.6.52 II GV 2. Includes Nos 50 and 52 Bell Street. Late C16 (RCHM Typescript). Exterior changed in late C17 or early C18, C18 windows and porch, C19 shop fronts. Timber frame plastered under hipped old red tile roof. 2 storeys. S end gabled but with lower eaves at rear over former inn gallery. Main range fronts E to The Square and dragon beam at corner indicates it was probably jettied to both streets. 2 storey wing in Bell Street has higher Gd floor and may be later. Deep chamfered moulded axial beam in No 52 with 2 bar stops indicates fine quality of main range. Large internal chimney stack with attached shaft. Long E front of pargetting with raised panels over low black plinth. Wide coved eaves 8 flush box sash windows spaced 6 and 2 with 6/6 panes. Projecting triangular pedimented Doric porch with 2 freestanding columns on low square bases with chamfered tops. C19 shop front with plinth as stallriser and continuous entablature continuing in Bell Street. RCHM suggest gallery erected at rear in later C17 unlike usual inn gallery formed in framework of building (RCHM Typescript). Important C16 building at town centre in C18 disguise.

Listing NGR: TL4837714807