7 And 8, King Street

Nos. 7 and 8 King Street are a pair of attached houses, now used as offices, built in 1665 and partly altered in the 18th century. They were restored in 1976. The buildings feature a rendered timber box frame with a rubble party wall separating them from No. 6, topped with a pantile roof. Each house has a single front and rear room with central stairs positioned on either side of the party wall. They stand three storeys tall, including an attic and basement, with a three-window range.

The two gabled fronts facing the street have shallow jetties and moulded fascia boards on the first and second floors, along with deep tiled overhanging pent roofs on the first floor and upper floors of No. 7. The eaves are boxed. Access is via wide steps leading to central paired doorways, which have moulded frames. No. 7 features a framed nine-panel door, while No. 8 has a six-panel door with raised panels.

The ground floor of No. 7 has paired 10/10-pane sash windows, a 17th-century canted two-storey oriel window above with mullion and transom casements, and a 4/4-pane horizontal sliding sash in the attic, all in flush frames. No. 8 has a ground-floor bay with three mullion and transom windows with glazing bars, and above it are 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, two on the first and second floors, and one in the attic. Two raking dormers over the stairwells face into the valley. The rear elevation is similar, featuring ovolo-moulded mullion windows and leaded casements on the upper floors of No. 7, which is slate-hung.

Inside, there is a central winder newel staircase against the party wall in No. 7, with half splat balusters and ball finials. No. 8 has an early to mid-18th-century dogleg stair on the ground floor at the rear, with uncut string, column-on-vase balusters, column newels, and matching panelled wainscot. The first-floor front room of No. 7 boasts a fleur-de-lys plaster ceiling decoration, and collar beam trusses with 19th-century braces. During the restoration, it was discovered that much of the oak studding and bracing was made from reused ships' timbers, and some of the laths were barrel staves.