54, Guildhall Street

54 Guildhall Street is a house that was formerly two shops, featuring an 18th-century front and a late 15th or early 16th-century interior, with a possible earlier core and a 19th-century addition. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof that has a wood modillion eaves cornice.

The exterior consists of two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. It has a two-window range with two 2-light casements on the upper storey, each with a single glazing bar in heavy flush frames. The ground storey shows remnants of two different early 19th-century shop window surrounds, complete with pilasters and cornices, although these have been replaced with 20th-century windows. A roof-light is present on the front slope of the roof. The central door is recessed, half-glazed, and framed by a moulded architrave with a flat cornice hood supported by shaped brackets. At the back, there is a 19th-century two-storey range with flint lower walls and timber-framed upper walls, all now roughcast rendered, featuring one 12-pane sash window in a flush cased frame on each storey.

Inside, there is a small vaulted cellar made of 19th-century red brick. The interior is divided into two bays. The left-hand room on the ground storey boasts a fine timber ceiling with heavily moulded beams and joists, along with an applied cornice that has rudimentary folded leaf ornament. There is no evidence of an underbuilt jetty, and the ceiling is higher than in the adjoining room, indicating it may have been added to an earlier structure that originally had an open hall. Original partition walls have been removed, and all timbers in the rest of the house are concealed, with the roof being inaccessible. The entrance door leads into a cross entry position, which may be original.