18, Eastgate Street

No. 18 Eastgate Street is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with 20th-century plain tiles on the roof. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring two bays that are jettied at the front. There are two windows on each storey, with 20th-century plain two-light casements on the first storey and sash windows in flush cased frames with a single vertical glazing bar on the ground storey. A segmental-headed dormer, covered in lead, contains a standard 20th-century window with a fanlight. The central doorway is framed by a plain wooden doorcase.

On the west gable, the end truss of a now-demolished house that once stood to the west of No. 18 is visible, showing the main components of the frame without any evidence of studding. Inside, the ground storey ceilings reveal plain exposed timbers. A chimney stack on the back wall of the eastern bay was once connected to a rear range but has been mostly removed, leaving only the lintel. Neither end wall of the house shows original studding; on the west side, there is an unusual join with the former house, while on the east side, a small gap between the end cross-beam and the wall suggests that the studding relates to the next house to the east. The rear range of the building consists of two stages of construction.