Cloth Hall

This is a special purpose building, likely a cloth hall, dating from the late 15th or early 16th century. It has undergone alterations in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries and is now used as a shop row and dwelling. The building is timber framed, with exposed framing and plaster infilling to the first floor of the front elevation, and painted brick infilling to the ground floor. The left gable end is tile hung to the first floor and attic, and the roof is tiled.

The building is composed of seven roughly equal-length bays, forming three intercommunicating rooms on each floor, with one bay of three to the left end and two bays of two each. It has two storeys and a garret. The first floor has close-studded framing. A formerly jettied first floor extends from the left gable end. A molded fillet runs halfway up the first floor, truncated across the right end bay, discontinued across the second bay from the left, and reappearing at a lower level at the left end. A similar discontinuous molded fillet runs along the base of the coving. A molded shaft is situated between these two fillets at the left end principal post. There are coved, jettied eaves to the front elevation and left gable end, with solid spandrel brackets at the ends of the apparent tie-beams, protruding above each principal and intermediate post. Lower eaves plates and "tie-beam" ends are present to the left end bay. A plain dragon-post is at the corner, flanked by solid brackets. A molded gable-end eaves bressumer is also present. The roof is hipped, with a gablet to the right. A central brick ridge stack is in the front slope of the roof.

The fenestration is irregular, with four leaded casements: one four-light window to the third bay from the left, one four-light ogee-moulded mullion window with round-headed lights between the fourth and fifth bays, another four-light window to the sixth bay, and one single-light window to the right end bay. Mortices are visible for a former four-light oriel window to the left gable end. The ground floor features bowed shop windows in reeded architraves, and there are three 20th-century half-glazed shop doors.

The interior, only partly inspected, reveals exposed framing and molded beams to the three left ground-floor bays, with plain chamfered beams to the remaining four bays. The principal posts of the open trusses are molded on both floors, except between the two right bays. Carved spandrels are on the molded crown-posts and tie-beams of some open trusses. The ground floor has molded 4-centred arched doorways with hollow spandrels, and the first floor has plain 4-centred arched doorways. A broad 17th-century staircase leads from the first floor to the attic; a rear stair turret is said to exist.