6, FORE STREET (See details for further address information)

No. 6 Fore Street is a shop and two cottages, now functioning as a shop and one dwelling, with an attached house at No. 1 Telegraph Street. This building dates from the early 19th century and has been altered. It features cross-wall construction, with stone cross walls and light post-and-rail front and rear walls infilled with rubble. The exterior is clad in painted white slate hung on a plinth of large granite blocks, topped with a slurried slate roof (No. 1 Telegraph Street has tiles that imitate slate).

Situated on an oblique corner site, the building has a single-depth trapezoidal plan, with the shop located at the left end and No. 1 Telegraph Street slightly set back at the right. The structure is two storeys high and has a total of five bays. The shop includes a chamfered corner with a doorway, a wide shop window made up of six large panes, and another doorway to the right, both featuring pilaster jambs. These are topped with a plain fascia and a simple cornice that has egg-and-dart decoration. Above the shop doorway, the end features an inverted triangle of fishscale slates, and the front has a four-pane sash window.

To the right, each cottage has a four-pane sash window on each floor, with the doorway to the second cottage located between the ground-floor windows, and there are chimneys on the rear wall. No. 1 Telegraph Street, which has two bays and is slightly canted back, features an altered former shop front in the first bay, with slender pilastered jambs leading to a blocked doorway on the right. To the left, there is a four-pane sash window and a modern doorway, all under a plain fascia and cornice with egg-and-dart decoration. There is also a four-pane sash window to the right and two above, along with a gable chimney.

Inside, the cottages to the right of the shop were originally one-up-one-down, each featuring a deep square granite fireplace in the rear wall. The plaster has been removed to reveal the wall construction, and there are modern additions to the rear. This building forms an attractive enclosure to the north-west side of a triangular junction that was once the site of St Day cross.