1 And 1A, Churchgate Street

1 and 1A Churchgate Street is a shop and office that was formerly a house and shop, dating from the 15th or early 16th century with later alterations. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with plaintiled roofs. It stands two storeys tall, with an attic and cellar in part, situated on a corner site. The main section features a gable facing Churchgate Street and likely began as a medieval cross-wing linked to a hall range, which was replaced by the current small two-storey range in the early 19th century.

The Churchgate Street side has three windows, all 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames, along with a 12-pane sash on the ground floor. There are two doors, one being a six-panel shop door topped with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by two fixed windows with plate glass and heavily leaded fanlights. On the Guildhall Street side, there is one 16-pane sash on the upper storey and a fixed window on the ground floor. Above the ground storey, there is a heavy moulded wooden fascia and cornice, likely from a former shop front. Inside, the corner range features main cross-beams and a dragon-beam connected to a former corner-post, all boxed in.