6, Old Cross

This is a 16th-century house, later used as a shop. It has undergone alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed and has been stuccoed below an old tiled roof. A tall red brick chimneystack is against the end wall of the adjacent building at number 4, and another external red brick chimney is against the rear wall.

The front has two tall sash windows on the first floor, with glazing bars and architrave surrounds. The window on the right is partly obscured by the shop fascia. On the ground floor is a square display window to the left and a late 19th-century shopfront with a full-length plate glass display window divided by a central mullion. A three-quarter glazed entrance door is to the left, flanked by a pilaster with a console and a blind box. Rusticated stucco quoins are on the left and right, and a shallow break in the front elevation at first-floor level suggests a former jetty. A gabled dormer window is on the right side of the roof.

The interior, partly connected to number 8, has three bays on the ground floor and a truncated fourth bay defined by exposed beams with run-out stops, propped by cast-iron columns behind the shopfront. There is a fireplace on the rear wall with a niche beside it. On the first floor, there are jowled posts and tie beams, with mortices for missing arch braces, and remains of high-level windows indicating a former open hall. Late 17th-century plank doors with iron strap hinges are present. Some timber framing may be inside the adjacent building at number 4. The roof has halved and pegged rafters, though the assembly sequence has been disturbed.

Together with number 8, this building originally housed Beckwith and Son, antique dealers in the late 19th century. Although it was formerly listed together with number 8, they are now considered two distinct buildings.