3, Fore Street

No. 3 Fore Street is a town house with a shop, built in 1855 by Henry Rice. It features a stucco front with slate hanging on the left-hand end and a dry Delabole slate roof. The building has cast-iron ogee gutters above a moulded cornice with dentils. It is three storeys high and has a well-preserved two-window front in a classical style. The original windows are 16-pane hornless sashes set within moulded eared architraves, with sills supported by corbels leading to a stepped sill string on the second floor. The first floor has triangular pediments on consoles over pilasters, which frame round-headed traceried two-light sashes on bracketed sills. The shop front is double with a splayed doorway and slender columns flanking plate-glass lights. There are end pilasters with consoles and a 20th-century applied fascia beneath a full-width moulded cornice. To the left, there is a doorway with a four-panel door and a plain rectangular overlight. The interior has not been inspected.