7, Whiting Street

No. 7 Whiting Street is a house that has been converted into a shop and store. It has a core dating from the mid-17th century, with an early 19th-century front and a large extension added in the late 20th century facing Langton Place. The building features a timber-framed interior and a white brick front, topped with a slate roof that has a paired mutule cornice on the front slope and concrete Roman tiles on the rear slopes.

The exterior is three storeys high with a cellar, and the framing is arranged in two ranges parallel to the street. There are three windows arranged in a 1:1:1 pattern, with the two outer windows being 12-pane sashes and the centre window being wider, flanked by narrow side-lights. All windows have plain reveals and flat gauged arches. On the left side, there is a six-panel door with a fanlight featuring ornamental glazing bars, set within a doubled brick arch. On the south side, two stone steps with rounded ends and wrought-iron handrails lead to a former garden door, now the shop entrance, which has two leaves with horizontal glazing bars and a wooden blind box above.

Inside, the cellar is lined with brick. The entrance door on the left opens into a narrow passage that leads to a fine mid-17th-century open well stair at the end. This stair features dumb-bell balusters, newels with ball finials, and moulded handrails, rising the full height of the house. The principal upper room is fully panelled with 18th-century raised fielded panels and has a dentil cornice. The fireplace in this room has a moulded and eared surround made of white figured marble, flanked by fluted wood pilasters that support a triglyph frieze. The ground storey fireplace has a similar marble surround that is moulded but not eared. The rear range has a clasped purlin roof in five bays, with only the purlins and collars exposed.