7, St Nicholas Street

No. 7 St Nicholas Street is a house that has been converted into shop premises. It dates from the 17th century and was extended in the 20th century. The building features a plastered timber frame and has a steeply pitched pantile roof with plain bargeboards on the gable ends and shaped rafter ends visible at the eaves. The axial stack is truncated below the roofline.

The layout consists of a two-room plan with a central axial stack, positioned at right angles to the street and set back. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window west front facing a yard. The windows include 19th and 20th century casements, with a small central casement on the first floor. There may be a blocked central doorway. The north gable end features a 19th century two-light attic casement and a flat-roofed single-storey extension. The rear east elevation has a small casement under the eaves. The south gable end facing the street includes a casement in the gable and a projecting single-storey shop added in the 20th century.

Inside, both ground floor rooms have chamfered axial beams with cyma and notch stops. The first floor chambers have similar lateral beams, with the south chamber displaying exposed studded walls and tension braces. All fireplaces have been blocked. There is a winder staircase beside the stack leading to the attics. The roof is ceiled but features exposed tenoned purlins, collars, and curved wind braces. The north attic has an exposed collar and clasped upper purlins, with close-studding visible in the north gable end. The ground storey of the south end wall has been removed to accommodate the 20th-century shop.