The Golden Guinea Restaurant

The Golden Guinea Restaurant is a probable merchant's house dating from the early 17th century. It features a stucco exterior on a timber frame, with steep asbestos slate parallel roofs. The building has a central axial rubble stack and a capped rendered stack on the left. It has a double-depth plan with a near central through passage and 20th-century extensions at the rear.

The restaurant is two storeys plus attics and has a two-window range. On the first floor, there are two rare wide original canted six-light-plus-sidelight oriel windows supported by moulded and carved brackets, with moulded sills, transoms, and ovolo-moulded mullions, including central king mullions. The horizontal glazing bars may indicate the former presence of saddle bars. The ground floor features two early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows beneath the left-hand oriel and a bowed 20th-century window under the right-hand oriel. There is an original moulded doorway to the left of centre, which has a 20th-century panelled door.

Inside, there is a 17th-century moulded plank and muntin screen to the left of the passage. The right-hand room has a 17th-century moulded plaster ceiling cornice with a trailing vine, and the hood of a former fireplace, now a doorway, is supported by consoles. The lower room space is behind the moulded and carved cornice. The left-hand front room features a 18th-century moulded ceiling cornice and some 18th-century doors with fielded panels. The first-floor chamber contains a 17th-century plaster panel depicting a crude relief with figures, an angel, plants, and a beast, along with the inscription "To obey is better than sacrifice EEE." Another plaster relief panel in the same room is dated 1652, and there is mention of another panel, not seen, said to date from 1632 and bearing the initials EW.