2, 3 and 3a Broad Street

Pair of houses with C18 frontages concealing earlier, timber-framed cores. Storeys were added to both properties in the late C19 or early C20. Numbers 3 and 3a (to the west) contain a shop while number 2 (to the east) contains a public house.

MATERIALS: numbers 2, 3 and 3a 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.

PLAN: the pair comprises two street-facing ranges of rectangular plan, both of three storeys plus basements, with an attic at numbers 3 and 3a. There is a two-storey wing extending north to the rear of numbers 3 and 3a (the western property), which is understood to be connected internally to number 2 (the eastern property) rather than numbers 3 and 3a.

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

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

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.

There is a tall brick chimney stack rising through the northern roof slope of number 2.