18, Whiting Street

No. 18 Whiting Street is a house that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with some alterations made in the early 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast rendering and a slate roof that has a wide plain eaves cornice. The building has three storeys and a cellar, although part of the cellar can only be accessed from No. 19.

The exterior has a two-window range, with 16-pane sash windows on the first storey, 12-pane sash windows on the second storey, and a single vertical glazing-bar window on the ground storey, all set in cased frames. The entrance is marked by a six-panel door, with the top panels glazed, surrounded by a moulded wood architrave and topped with a flat cornice. The upper storeys feature a section of applied mock timbering at the centre. At the rear, there is a two-storey early 19th-century extension that is rendered and has a shallow-pitched roof covered with concrete single Roman tiles.

Inside, there is a deep cellar beneath the northern half of the building, which continues from the cellar accessible only from No. 19. The cellar walls contain much reused stone, and the ceiling features a large main beam with narrow early 19th-century joists. The front ground-storey room has substantial cross-beams exposed in the ceiling, one of which has mortices indicating a former partition, suggesting that the frame originally extended into No. 19. A plain 19th-century staircase with stick balusters leads to the upper floors.