Kinges Halle

Kinges Halle, formerly known as Wool House and part of The King Charles Public House, is a warehouse that has been incorporated into a house and is now a public house. It dates back to the 15th century, with divisions and alterations made in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of 15th-century limestone rubble combined with 18th-century brickwork, featuring a gable stack and a tiled roof. It has a rectangular plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, displaying a two-window range on the gable.

The east gable includes a left-hand double doorway with a lintel and 20th-century doors, alongside a right-hand doorway with cambered heads and 20th-century boarded doors. There is a first-floor right-hand cross window and a left-hand mid 20th-century three-light mullion and transom window. An attic light with plate glass is located beneath a projecting lifting beam, and there is a gable stack. The west wall features a blocked two-light transom window with cinquefoil heads in a frame that is rebated for shutters, as well as two blocked openings on the south wall.

Inside, the west wall contains a round-arched embrasure with a moulded stone mullion and transom cross window that has cusped heads in the upper lights. The roof structure consists of three trusses with braced, collared principal rafters supported by tie beams and V struts on collars. The rafters are large and set flat, with short supporting posts rising from a chamfered wall plate, chamfered butt purlins, and square-section ridge pieces.

Historically, this building was the western end of the Town Cellar, a substantial warehouse that reflects the town's prosperity in the 15th century. It was separated from the cellar when Thames Street was cut through to the Quay.