Blue Door

Blue Door is a house that was later converted into two shops and is now under single ownership. It dates back to the 17th century and was refronted in the early 19th century when a rear range was added. The ground floor features 20th-century windows and doors. The front range is an original timber-framed structure that has been refronted in brick, which is painted, with tile-hanging on the first floor of the south elevation and the north gable. The building has a tiled roof that is half-hipped to the south and includes a central brick chimneystack. It stands two storeys high with attics and has three windows. There are three gabled dormers with 19th-century casements on the roof. The first floor has three 16-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features two 19th-century twenty-pane shopfronts and 20th-century doors on the side elevations. The narrow range at the rear, built in the 19th century, is partly brick, partly weatherboarded, and partly tile-hung, and it has two early 19th-century leaded light casements on pintle hinges. Inside the front range, there is a large sandstone back-to-back open fireplace. The timber frame includes jowled posts, stop-chamfered spine beams, and curved windbraces within the butt purlin roof.