Former Church House (Comprises Premises Occupied By W Warr, Tobbaconist Premises Occupied By Pedley And White Premises Occupied By John Isaacs)

This is a two-storey building originally constructed between 1530 and 1534 by the Churchwardens of All Hallows Parish as a Church House. It is built of stone ashlar. The upper floor has a series of four-light stone mullioned casement windows, with three centred or semi-circular heads to each light, and two sash windows at the west end. An undulating stringcourse runs below the first-floor windows. The original design included a Church Hall on the first floor and a kitchen with tenements on the ground floor.

The building's sixteenth-century use included church matters, public meetings, marriages, and performances. A date stone, displaying the date 1570 upside down and constructed of tile, likely commemorates the shoring up of the walls at that time. In 1693, the Masters and Brethren of the Almshouse took over the lease, and in 1701, the entire building was converted into three separate tenements. A date stone from 1701 marked with the initials W S A refers to the tenancy of William Samson, an apothecary, beginning in that year.

Currently, the ground floor is occupied by three shops. W Warr’s premises include a two-light plate-glass window, a doorway with an 18th-century pedimented hood, a sash window, a doorway with a slightly pointed head, chamfered jambs, and a six-panelled door, concluding with a four-pane sash window. Pedley and White’s premises have a modern shop front, but retain a six-panelled door within an architrave frame at the right-hand end. John Isaacs' premises feature a projecting front with a tile penthouse and a half-glazed panelled door, dating to around 1700. The roof is of mixed materials; west end stone slates, with plaintiles covering the centre and east end.

The building is part of a group with the Hospital of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the Abbey Church of St. Mary in Abbey Close, and the Saints John Building on Cheap Street.