26, Church Street

No. 26 Church Street is an inn that was later converted into a shop with accommodation. It dates from the 17th century and was remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features a rendered timber-frame front that jetties out, with a corbelled end of masonry wall on the left. It has a steep rag slate roof, with asbestos slate hanging on the front gables and much of the rear. The structure has a single-depth plan with gable ends facing the street and a wing at an angle to the rear right. It stands three storeys tall and has a two-window range. The windows are 20th-century copies of mid-19th century hornless sashes with glazing bars, and there are paired sashes on the first floor. The ground floor has a 20th-century double shop front with a splayed central doorway, and a house doorway on the left with a 20th-century door that includes an integral six-pane overlight. The slate-hung rear has a large rubble lateral stack.

Inside, the building retains much of its 17th-century structure and features, including oak studwork partitions and roof structures. It has ovolo-moulded doorframes and scratch-moulded doors, some of which still have old red and brown paint. The outer frames of former mullioned windows are ovolo-moulded, with some retaining only the headrail. There are chamfered granite fireplaces with splayed backs, and an octagonal stone pier between the ground floor areas. A complex-moulded oak doorframe leads into the rear wing, which contains a large hidden fireplace and a particularly interesting semi-circular stair turret with winders and a domed ceiling structure. Overall, the interior is remarkably complete from the 17th century.