The Old Guildhall (Now Museum)

The Old Guildhall, now a museum, is a building likely dating from the 16th century, with some remodeling in the 17th century. It features rubble walls with chamfered oak lintels, some of which are original. The roof is part grouted and part slurried rag slate, adorned with seven original crested clay ridge tiles, and there is a truncated rear lateral stack.

The structure has a rectangular first-floor hall plan and stands two storeys tall, with the street level raised at the front. It has a two-window range, with late 17th century or 1705 three-light oak mullioned windows on both the first and ground floors. There is a rubble string just above the first-floor sill level, and many of the oak lintels are original or from the 17th century. The ground-floor windows feature 20th-century copy outer frames, while the first-floor has leaded lights. The ground floor has fixed lights with glazing bars. Above the ground-floor lintels are the truncated remains of original corbels, which likely once supported a pentice roof with a string course for weathering.

The building has an original oak doorway with a shouldered head, centrally located in relation to the windows. There is a 20th-century panelled copy door, and to the left, another original doorway with a nine-panel door. A flight of external stone steps leads up to an open gabled porch, which features a town pillory used as a collar. The left-hand return of the building has two small barred windows.

Inside, the original oak roof structure includes high morticed collars, trenched purlins, and slightly curved truss feet resting on wallplates. The left-hand end has a canopied plaster ceiling with a simple cove that follows the shape of the trusses, and there is a corbelled fireplace hood supported by late 19th or 20th-century granite corbels. The ground floor showcases original chamfered joists, with the inner ends of probable pentice corbels visible. On the right side of the first floor is the magistrates bench from 1705, featuring bolection-moulded panelling and a plaster coat of arms above.