Greyfriars

Greyfriars is a house dating back to the 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a plaintiled roof and a coved modillion eaves cornice. A two-storey extension in painted brick with a slate roof was added to the south in the 19th century.

The main house has a jettied street frontage, with the ends of the jetty joists covered by a wooden fascia. The front elevation has a symmetrical arrangement of four windows on each floor: tripartite sashes with 12-pane central windows and 4-pane outer windows in flush cased frames. One ground floor window has a segmental head. Three segmental-headed dormers contain 2-light casement windows. A six-panel front door, with a rectangular fanlight, is flanked by fluted pilasters and enriched console brackets below the jetty, and is accessed by three stone steps with cast-iron handrails. At the rear are three gabled extensions with plain bargeboards. One rear gable has a wide semicircular Edwardian bay with four sash windows on the ground storey, while a smaller canted four-light bay on the first storey has a slate roof. The remaining rear gables have a random arrangement of small-paned sash windows.

The cellar contains walling of stone blocks, flint, and old render, along with an original timber ceiling and stone supports for the internal chimney-stack. The ground floor contains several Edwardian stone fireplaces. The entrance hall features a Jacobean-style panelled dado, incorporating some original linenfold panels and later Edwardian additions. The main cross beams in the entrance hall do not match, and there is evidence of a former partition. The internal chimney-stack appears to be an addition. A ground floor room on the right has full 18th-century panelling. The southernmost rear wing has a lower ceiling with a plain chamfered main beam and is likely the oldest part of the house.

The staircase has two phases; the lower stage is from the early 19th century, featuring wreathed handrails and thin column balusters, while the upper balustrade has 18th-century moulded balusters. The main roof has a plain crown-post form, showing evidence of alteration, with heavy braces and a collar purlin at a lower level in the south. The centre rear gable has a side purlin roof.