24 And 25, New Street

This is a 17th-century house with a shop, remodelled in the 18th century and again in the mid-19th century. The front of the building is stuccoed, and the roof is a dry slate mansard with four horned sash windows. There are two lateral rendered stacks at the rear. The building has an overall U-shaped plan, including rear wings at an angle.

The exterior is two storeys plus an attic within the mansard roof and has a two-window range with late 19th-century four-pane horned sashes. There are three doorways: one to the left of the house and two beneath a mid-19th-century moulded entablature of a pilastered double shopfront with later transomed glazing, a splayed recessed central shop doorway, and an open doorway on the right. The doorways have panelled doors, with some later glazed panels.

Inside number 25, some 17th- and 18th-century features are present, including a 17th-century ovolo-moulded doorway and a moulded beam, 18th-century turned balusters to a mid-19th-century staircase, and an 18th-century door with fielded panels. Mid-19th-century features include a plank and muntin partition to the side of the entrance passage, a segmental-arched corner cupboard, and a circa 1840 hob grate in the front room, with slightly later 19th-century grates in other rooms inspected. The interior of number 24 was not inspected, but is likely to contain similar features. New Street contains a high proportion of fine 17th- and 18th-century houses.