2, 3 and 3a Broad Street

This property comprises a pair of houses, 2, 3, and 3a Broad Street, with 18th-century frontages that conceal earlier timber-framed structures. Additional storeys were added to both properties in the late 19th or early 20th century. Number 2 (to the east) contains a public house, while numbers 3 and 3a (to the west) include a shop.

The buildings are understood to have timber-framed cores. Their exterior elevations are rendered, with exposed red brick on the ground floor of number 2. Both properties have tile-covered roofs.

The pair consists of two street-facing ranges of rectangular plan, each of three storeys plus basements, with an attic at numbers 3 and 3a. A two-storey wing extends north to the rear of numbers 3 and 3a, and is understood to be connected internally to number 2 rather than to numbers 3 and 3a.

The principal frontage of numbers 3 and 3a faces south onto Broad Street. The ground floor contains a retail unit with a modern classical-style shopfront. The first and second floors have three bays of two-over-two sash windows, likely modern replacements, set flush to the wall. The attic storey features two gabled dormer windows with timber casements on the south-facing slope of the roof, and another on the north slope.

The pub frontage on the ground floor of number 2 extends into the range at numbers 3 and 3a. It is constructed from exposed header bond brickwork and includes a classical doorcase with a shell hood (probably a modern replica) in the westernmost bay, providing access to the public house and upper floors. This bay is slightly recessed. The two eastern bays have six-over-six sash windows with brick flat arches and rendered sills, set beneath a rendered plinth. A plat band runs across the elevation between the ground and first floors. The first and second floors each have a single two-over-two sash window set flush to the elevation. A cast-iron bracket and hanging pub sign are modern additions.

The building’s blank, east gable wall is exposed at the first and second floors and is rendered to its full height. The first and second-storey levels of numbers 2 and 3 are white rendered. A tall brick chimney stack rises through the northern roof slope of number 2.