Number 9 And Attached Walls And Outbuilding

Number 9 and the attached walls and outbuilding are two houses that have been converted into one residence, dating from the 17th century. The house on the right was built around 1810 for Henry North, the town clerk. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, featuring an ashlar front with banded rustication on the ground floor. It has a gabled Welsh slate roof with end stacks made of rendered stone finished in brick. The structure has a double-depth plan and is designed in a late Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window range.

The entrance features early 19th-century beaded double doors with a decorative overlight, set within a bracketed architrave that has revealed panels. Above the doors are keyed segmental tympanum arches over tripartite sashes that include glazing bars. There is a raised storey band and flat arches above six-pane sashes on the first floor and three-pane sashes on the second floor, topped with a bracketed cornice.

To the left is the 17th-century house, which was remodeled in the 19th century. It is made of coursed limestone rubble with a stuccoed upper storey and a stone slate roof. This section is three storeys high with a one-window range and features a canted two-storey bay window with eight-pane sashes, along with an early 19th-century eight-pane sash window above. The rear wall of the 17th-century house was heightened in the mid-19th century with brick, and there are 19th-century sashes and casements at the rear.

Inside, the central hall has an early 19th-century panelled dado, a dentilled cornice, and an early 19th-century fireplace in the room to the right. The hall to the rear features early 19th-century quarter-turn stairs with winders and stick balusters. The 17th-century house to the left is noted for its heavy chamfered beams.

The property is enclosed by brick walls that form a garden measuring approximately 50 by 10 metres at the rear, constructed in early 19th-century rat-trap Flemish bond on the left side. The rear wall adjoining Rectory Lane is made of mid to late 18th-century English garden wall bond with limestone rubble. There is also an early 19th-century outbuilding at the rear, built of brick and limestone rubble with a concrete tile roof, which is attached to another outbuilding facing Rectory Lane made of limestone rubble with a half-hipped stone slate roof.