2, 4 And 6, Buttermarket

2, 4, and 6 Buttermarket is a range of shops and a former public house, known as the Rose Inn, which closed in 1957. The buildings date from the early 17th century but were mostly altered in the early to mid-19th century. Although the Rose Inn was said to have once displayed a date of 1461, no evidence of such antiquity was found during the review.

The structure consists of two distinct ranges that are timber-framed, plastered, and colourwashed, with plain tile roofs, mostly replaced with machine tiles. Nos. 2 and 4 Buttermarket have two storeys and four bays of framing. The ground floor features an early 19th-century shopfront with two doors and display windows beneath a cornice, with a central entrance through six-panelled doors. One door that previously led to first-floor apartments is now boarded over. To the left, there is a sash window with 8/8 glazing bars, and four first-floor sashes with either 6/6 or 8/8 glazing bars. The roof is gabled, with the ridge of a rear cross wing visible.

No. 6, the former Rose Inn, has two storeys and three bays. It features a mid-19th-century bar front that wraps around the north-west corner, with three segmentally-headed lights on the north window and two double-leaf doors, one located in the canted north-west corner. There is a 20th-century door to the left of the bar front and a 6/6 sash window to the left of that. The first floor has three 3/6 sashes, and the roof is gabled with a central stack. The stack has a 17th-century quadrant-moulded panel that is now mostly rebuilt. There is a short wing attached to the rear with an external south gable-end stack, and an early 19th-century brick extension added to the south of this. The fenestration includes sashes and one 20th-century casement.

Inside, the buildings have been adapted for office use and feature chamfered bridging beams. No. 6 comprises two timber-framed buildings that are joined together, with the south range displaying jowled early 17th-century studs and the north range featuring mid-17th-century plain studs, cambered tie beams, and collars. The roofs consist of principals and collars, which are covered with hardboard.