Young's Stores

This is a house and shop, with a facade dating to the late 18th and 19th centuries. The building has a complex history, including a core from the early 18th century and a tall mid-to-late 16th-century cross-wing. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a parapet concealing a gently sloping slate roof; other roof areas are covered in plain tiles. There is an internal chimney constructed of red brick. The building has mid-19th century small-pane sash windows.

The front has a well-preserved, wide, late 18th-century bow-fronted shop window with small panes, and a recessed doorway in the centre featuring a pair of half-glazed panelled doors, supported by Tuscan columns, and topped with a flat entablature. The cornice continues over the shop windows, with slender pilasters at each end. A late 18th-century six-panelled entrance door with glazed upper panels leads to No. 101.

The left-hand parlour block contains notable mid-16th century features including arch-braced close studding and moulded ceiling beams in the upper room; the studwork retains original herringbone bricknogging. Within the roofspace there is a painted area on the plaster, simulating the bricknogging with bright red paint and fine white joints. One square panel features a painted foliate design; the painting is likely early and possibly original. It has a coupled-rafter roof.

A lower wing, likely from the early 16th or possibly 15th century, is behind the main facade, with evidence of an earlier crownpost roof that has since been rebuilt. A 17th-century window illuminates a staircase tower, and a rare early 18th-century window has bullseye glass within square panes and thick glazing bars. A long rear wing to the right is primarily of 19th-century red brick, though it may have an earlier core.

The building has been used continuously as a grocer’s shop since at least 1784, when it was known as John Woodward, Grocer and Draper.