Granby House Masonic Hall

Granby House Masonic Hall, located at 124-128 East Street, is a building with origins dating back to around 1500, with its front section completed in 1769 when it opened as the Marquis of Granby Inn. The front is finished in stucco, while No 128 is constructed of brick. The building stands three storeys high and features a hipped stone slate roof. It has a modillion eaves cornice and a rusticated ground floor.

No 128 includes two inserted shop fronts and a four-panelled door with an oblong fanlight. The other entrances have six-panelled doors with semi-circular fanlights. The windows are sash style, with glazing bars and keystones. Nos 124 and 126 feature eared surrounds on the first and second floor windows, along with semi-circular blind panels covering blocked windows on the second floor.

The rear section of the building is a remnant of the medieval Priory of St John, constructed from rubble with a pitched slate roof and coped gables on kneelers. The east wall has a canted oriel window supported by a coved and moulded corbel, featuring four lights, each with three-centred heads. The lower part of this window appears to date from around 1500, while the upper section may be from the mid-16th century. There are remains of two other windows with moulded frames, likely early 16th century, one of which has a relieving arch. The south wall incorporates voussoirs from a pointed lancet.

Inside the rear section, the ground floor room at the north end has a ceiling with all moulded beams, a door with a chamfered arch, and a blocked door on the west side (now a cupboard) that has a chamfered relieving arch and an ogee-shaped moulding, which likely once framed a door. The first-floor room above this has the oriel window on the east side and a blocked window with three arched lights and a hollow chamfer opposite it, along with a fireplace featuring a chamfered four-centred arch. The room at the south end of the first floor was evidently refurbished in the mid-18th century, showcasing a moulded cornice and fielded panelling throughout, including reveals of two blocked windows to the west.

Additionally, there is a one-storey red brick extension to the south with a pitched pantile roof, a planked door, planked double doors, one casement window with glazing bars, one boarded window, and one loft door. Nos 108 to 128 form a group.