80 London Street

80 London Street is a timber-framed building constructed in the 17th or 18th century, with a datestone of 1753, and was re-fronted in the mid-19th century. The original structure features a timber frame with brick infill, while the street-facing elevation is finished with stuccoed brick. The rear elevation is made of red brick and has a tile-hung gable. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, with brick stacks.

The building has a rectangular plan, originally including a covered passageway that is now enclosed to the south. The street-facing elevation rises three storeys above a basement and is rendered to resemble ashlar. On the ground floor, the southern entrance features a 20th-century part-glazed door with an overlight, while to the north is a large 20th-century shop window set in a 19th-century opening, accompanied by a basement light below. Piers between and flanking these openings have impost mouldings beneath a plain fascia with a cornice. The first floor has three windows with projecting eared surrounds, and the openings contain six-over-one horned sash frames, with cills supported by brackets. The second floor has one central window of similar design, with its cill resting on a platband. The architrave around this window merges into a band above, which is topped by a heavy projecting cornice and parapet.

At the rear, the southern doorway is now covered by the extended passageway. The 1985 List entry noted a ground-floor window with an original segmental-arched opening that is partially blocked, and there is a single segmental-arched window at first-floor level. The gable is tile-hung and features a 20th-century casement window. A stone tablet on the rear wall reads ‘w j March 25 1753’.

Inside, the building is understood to have seen little alteration, retaining the original dog-leg stair with closed strings and a column-on-vase baluster from top to bottom. The ground-floor front room has a simple wooden cornice and a chimneypiece.