88 London Street

This is a house dating from the 16th century, significantly remodelled in the early 18th century and with a 19th-century shopfront added.

The house is constructed of timber frame, and was re-faced with brick, now painted. The south elevation has brick infill at ground floor level, with the rest of the elevation rendered. The upper part of the rear elevation is clad in modern weatherboarding, and the roof is covered in historic plain clay tiles.

The building is arranged over two storeys with an attic and basement. It has a rectangular plan, with a three-storey extension to the north-west. The shorter gable end faces London Street, and the longer south elevation runs parallel to Church Street.

The ground floor of the east elevation, facing London Street, features a mid-19th century timber shopfront with a doorway to the south. The shop window and doorway are flanked by full-height pilaster strips running up to a plain fascia and dentil cornice. The window contains late 20th or early 21st century glazing divided into two sections, above a 19th-century timber stallriser. A basement well grating is below the window. At first-floor level, the east elevation has two bays of windows with segmental arches made of gauged brick, containing eight-over-eight horned sash frames. A smaller window with three-over-six sash frames is located in the attic. Above, the parapet slopes upwards to the south, following the roof line, and remains horizontal to the north. The ground floor of the south elevation onto Church Street is largely brickwork laid in irregular stretcher bond, with an infill doorway and window opening. The rendered first floor juts out over Church Street; the western section has two small window openings with metal casement frames. A dragon beam is located in the south-east corner of the jetty. The roof has a single north-south slope with a half-hipped slope to the east and west. Two window openings remain visible in the rear, west elevation of the original building; this, along with the rear extension, is clad in weatherboarding above ground-floor level.

Inside, the house has an altered turned-baluster staircase. The cellar contains a fragment of stone, possibly medieval, with a chevron carved on it.