24, 25 AND 26, RISBYGATE STREET

24, 25, and 26 Risbygate Street is a building that originally functioned as a single house but has since been divided into three houses and shops, and is currently one shop with living accommodation. It dates from the early to mid 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 20th centuries. The structure is timber-framed, with rendered panels on the upper storey and a roof covered in 20th-century plain tiles. The frame consists of three long bays, featuring an internal chimney stack located between the first and second bays from the east, topped by a plain rebuilt rectangular red brick chimney shaft.

The building has two storeys, a cellar, and attics, with a three-window range. The windows are three-light Edwardian casements with vertical glazing bars above a transom. There are three gabled 17th-century dormers with fluted bargeboards, each containing two-light casement windows with square leaded panes and original wrought-iron fittings. The ground floor features three Edwardian shop fronts with recessed doors, some panelled stall risers, and a continuous fascia with a blind box. At the rear, there are two late 19th-century extensions that are rendered.

Inside, there is a small modernised cellar beneath the west bay. The ground storey includes a heavy chamfered main beam in the eastern bay and a cambered fireplace lintel. On the first storey, the two-bay room to the west of the stack has chamfered main beams with later trimmers added to support the attic floor. The jowled posts of the open truss support a cambered tie-beam with small solid braces, which hold a tall, plain crown-post of rectangular section, braced in two directions to the collar-purlin only. The rafters are concealed, and there has been some 20th-century repair to the roof. The eastern bay and chimney stack may be of slightly later construction, as the collar-purlin is set lower than in the rest of the roof. The attic storey was added in the later 17th century, and the floors retain their original wide oak boarding.