16, Angel Hill

No. 16 Angel Hill is a house that has been converted into offices. The front of the building dates from the early 19th century, while the core is from the 16th and 17th centuries. The structure is timber-framed and faced in white brick, topped with a slate roof that features paired bracketed eaves cornice.

The building has three storeys and cellars, with a front range and a rear wing at right angles, along with later extensions. The first storey has five windows, which are 12-pane sashes set in plain reveals with cement flat arches and stone sills. The ground storey features two tripartite windows, also with 12-pane sashes and diminished side-lights, along with cement heads and stone sills. The top storey has three 9-pane sashes. The central entrance door, accessed by two steps, has six raised fielded panels, a rectangular fanlight, and a doorcase with plain pilasters and a cornice.

Inside, some of the main beams and posts of the timber frame are exposed. There are two cellars: on the east side, a 19th-century cellar that extends below the road; and on the west side, a 17th-century cellar beneath the rear wing. This cellar features an arch-braced tie-beam supporting the ceiling, and one wall contains the remains of a former bake-oven made of re-used stone blocks, including part of a large column. Timber remains above the stonework appear to be fragments of a building predating the 16th century.

The rear wing is at a different level than the front and has had its roof replaced with a single pitch that runs into the main roof's rear slope. A cambered tie-beam in the end wall, which is chamfered and stopped, suggests that the wing was originally longer. There is an edge-halved and bridled scarf in one wallplate. On the top storey, the rear wallplate of the front range is exposed, and a collar-beam indicates the original attic's roof slope, which was raised to a full storey in the early 19th century when the house was refronted. A small 20th-century rear extension includes a sash window from around 1700, featuring heavy ovolo-moulded glazing-bars.