Number 42 (West Half)

Number 42 (West half) is a former lodging range for an inn, dating from the early 16th century, and is now largely disused. The building was reroofed in the late 19th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered, with a slightly recessed wall of 16th-century brick facing Brentgovel Street, and has a gabled slate roof.

The exterior is two storeys high with a two-window range on the formerly jettied Brentgovel Street frontage. The ground floor has 20th-century plank double doors leading to a wide entry on the left. On the first storey, there are two 19th-century 12-pane sash windows flanking a central late-19th-century loading doorway, which has half-glazed double doors and a cast-iron swinging crane mounted on a heavy timber wall-post.

Inside, the building has an exposed timber frame in three bays, featuring middle rails, studding, jowled wall posts, and chamfered wall plates, along with a late 19th-century roof structure. Two bays of the ground-storey ceiling are visible, showcasing heavy chamfered cross-beams and substantial plain joists with barefaced soffit tenons. The first storey shows evidence of a diamond-mullioned window with rebates for shutters on the front wall, and roll-moulded tie-beams, one of which has arched braces. The roll-moulded binding beams and joists have been remoulded.

An original passage along the south (rear) wall, defined by a braced post on the north side, was likely built as a gallery overlooking the rear yard of Moyses Hall. The easternmost ground-storey bay is currently part of Number 42 (East half), where the structure is not visible. This building is significant in the history of Moyses Hall, indicating that at least part of the complex was in use as an inn around 1500.