The Vermont Exchange

The Vermont Exchange is a bar and restaurant dating back to the 16th century, with a front facade dating to the early 18th century, and 20th-century extensions to the rear. The building is timber framed and has brick cladding on a rendered plinth to the front. The roof is tiled, with a hipped section to the left and a stone cope parapet. There are large ridge stacks to the left of the front and end stacks to the right. The building has two storeys and an attic, with four hipped roof dormers. A plat band runs over the ground floor, and a moulded cornice band sits at the base of the parapet. There are nine bays with glazing bar sashes under gauged brick heads. The central three windows are within a pedimented break, featuring a lunette in the tympanum and stone coping to the edges, with one blocked window on either side. The central arched doors have a stone voussoir surround with a vermiculated keystone, and a flat porch hood supported by fluted cast iron columns. A “Venetian” window is on the first floor of the left-hand return front. The interior retains visible timber framing, although it has been restored and augmented.