1,3, Seckford Street

Nos 1 and 3 Seckford Street are late 16th-century buildings with a mid-19th-century front and a modern wing on the left, which houses the Seckford Library. A stone bearing the initials WAB and the date 1809 indicates that William Alleyne Barker added a flint and red brick wing at the rear when he was the Headmaster of the Grammar School, which was located here from 1662 to 1864. The buildings are two storeys with a lower ground floor. They are timber framed and plastered, except for the front and wing, and feature an overhanging first floor on the right-hand end. Traces of old carved bressumer and other timbers can still be seen, although the interior has been largely modernised. The front has four windows and three blank panels, with sash windows on the first floor that include glazing bars. The roof is tiled with slate eaves courses, and there is a wood pedimented Doric doorcase.