18 And 18A, Hatter Street

18 and 18A Hatter Street is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with early 18th-century alterations and extensions. The building is timber-framed and rendered in panels, topped with a plain tiled roof.

The exterior features two storeys and a cellar, with three gables facing the street. At the south end, there is a wide arched entrance with exposed timbering along the side walls. The building has a six-window range, with 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames that have thick early 18th-century ovolo-moulded glazing bars. The central entrance door is framed by a doorcase with a flat pediment supported by heavy scrolled brackets, featuring plain reveals, a double-leaf door, and a fanlight with vertical glazing bars.

Inside, the cellar walls are made of rubble and stone, with a ceiling supported by a heavy chamfered main beam and flat joists. The oldest part of the building includes the wide entrance at the south end and the room above it, which have heavy studding and are framed in three bays, possibly indicating a medieval core. The front range has undergone extensive early 18th-century changes and has been extended at the rear, where there is a fine staircase and balustrade with closed strings, barley-sugar twist balusters, plain newels, and a moulded handrail. There is also a panelled dado. In the upper front rooms, corner fireplaces with bolection-moulded surrounds have been added.

The narrower 17th-century rear range has two storeys and attics, a plain tiled mansard roof, and is faced with ornate Edwardian tile-hanging. This range contains two rooms on each storey; one ground floor room features full-height panelling with raised mouldings and a heavy moulded wooden cornice, along with a bolection-moulded fireplace surround with plain pilasters and a heavy cornice that projects slightly above. The first-storey room has a 17th-century main beam with scroll-stops. Additionally, there is a 19th-century extension to the west of the rear range, which has a shallow-pitched roof and is also tile-hung.