6, Hatter Street

No. 6 Hatter Street is a house that has been subdivided, with its origins dating back to the early 17th century. It underwent alterations and extensions in the 18th century, and features a 19th-century front. The building has a white brick facade at the front and red brick at the rear, topped with a slate roof that has two parallel ranges and a modillion eaves cornice.

The exterior is two storeys high, with attics and cellars, and has a seven-window range consisting of 12-pane sash windows set in deep reveals. There are three segmental-headed dormers. The central entrance features a six-panel door with a segmental fanlight and radial glazing-bars, flanked by recessed reeded columns and reveals.

Inside, the cellar beneath part of the front range has a very thick cross-wall made of stone and flint, which includes a small reset arched stone doorway. The front range is timber-framed, with some heavy early 17th-century main beams exposed on the ground floor. At the north end, the first-storey room is fully panelled with fine Jacobean square panelling and includes a fireplace surround decorated with strapwork motifs and flanked by fluted pilasters. Mid-Georgian alterations are evident with three fireplaces featuring eared architraves and an ornate plaster cornice with formal floral motifs in the north ground storey room. In the parallel rear range, the upper room at the south retains substantial remains of 18th-century raised fielded panelling. The back range mainly showcases early and later 19th-century features, including a shallow full-height canted bay with three small-paned sash windows on each storey.