13 And 15, Fore Street

Two town houses, later incorporating shops, were built in the mid-19th century. They appear on Ordnance Survey maps as numbers 13, 15, and 17. The houses are constructed with incised stucco on a timber studwork frame, and they have a hipped slate roof with a moulded eaves cornice and cast-iron ogee gutters. They have a deep internal layout. The two-storey facade has a four-window range. The original windows are 12-pane hornless sash windows set within moulded architraves, with decorative “ears” above the first-floor windows. A 20th-century shop front is present on the left-hand side of number 15, and a late-19th century shop front is visible on the left-hand side of number 13. The latter features slender incised pilasters with pedimented consoles, slender columns flanking plate-glass windows, arched heads and a moulded entablature to the fascia, with a blind slot. The return wall to the left has a partly blocked round-headed doorway featuring a glazed door and original fanlight. The interior of the buildings has not been inspected.