13-15, WEST STREET

Nos 13 to 15 on West Street are a group of buildings with historical significance. No 13, on the left, is a later 18th century, three-storey structure made of red brick, featuring a parapet with brick capping. It has a five-bay front with a recessed centre and a Palladian window on the first floor. Above this window is a moulded bracketed cornice. The second floor has only three windows, with the end windows designed as semi-circular lunettes. The glazing bars are intact except for the lower half of the first-floor windows. To the right, there is a further bay that consists of a red brick front concealing an earlier timber-framed core, possibly dating back to the 15th century, which may extend into No 14. Inside, the timber-framing is visible. The ground floor features a plate glass shop front that spans the entire width. There are also remains of two decorative plaster ceilings within.

Nos 14 and 15 have a 19th-century front that covers an earlier building. They are three storeys tall with four bays, a gabled roof, and a stuccoed front. There is a band between the first and second floors and a moulded eaves cornice. The sash windows are set in reveals, with glazing bars intact only on the second floor. The ground floor has a tall plate-glass shop front from the late 19th to early 20th century, featuring three-centred heads to the windows and columns with enriched capitals at the entry. Nos 8 to 15 form a group, which includes a lamp and lamp brackets to the west of No 15.