15, Eastgate Street

15 Eastgate Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with living accommodation above. It dates from the early 17th century and features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with 19th-century fishscale tiles and ornamental ridge-tiles on the roof.

The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range of sash windows, each with a single vertical glazing bar in flush cased frames. The ground storey has a late 20th-century double shop front. There is one flat-headed dormer on the roof, which has rendered cheeks and two-light small-paned casement windows. At the rear, there is a lower wing that is covered with plain tiles and built in two structural stages, with the earlier stage consisting of two timber-framed bays.

Inside, the building is arranged in two bays. Originally, there were two rooms on each storey, but the ground storey has been opened up into one large space. The central ceiling beam has empty mortices indicating where a partition wall once stood. The room on the left of the ground storey was heated and still has an open fireplace with a plain chamfered timber lintel featuring lamb's tongue stops. The main ceiling beams are also chamfered and stopped. On the upper storey, the dividing partition wall has been moved, and the tie-beam shows empty mortices. The rafters in the attic are covered.