74, Middle Street

This is a house with a shop, likely dating from the 17th century, although it was significantly refronted in the early 19th century and had timber-framed cladding added in the early 20th century. The front is rendered timber-framed, while the side walls are of stone rubble. The roof is slate-covered, with a gabled hip at the front and pierced crested ridge-tiles. A large rendered chimney is visible on the right side wall.

The house was originally one room wide and probably one room deep, although small rear rooms appear to have been partitioned off on the upper floors. A small stair projection, likely a later addition, is on the left. A late 20th-century rear wing has been added. The building is three storeys high and has one window wide on the front. The ground floor has a shop front with small panes, probably dating from the early 20th century. Visible inside the shop front are the butt-ends of the side walls, suggesting that either the upper storeys were jettied or that the entire front was carried forward in the early 19th century. The upper storeys feature patterned timber-framing with projecting pegs. Each storey has a triple-sashed window; the middle sashes have 6 over 6 panes, while the outer sashes have 2 over 2 panes. There is an eaves-cornice with small imitation machicolations running around the left side wall. A section of the right side wall visible shows round-arched sash windows in each upper storey. A 2-light wood casement window with 2 panes per light is present in the staircase on the left side.

The interior of the ground floor features an early 19th-century open cupboard at the front of the right side wall, with a curved head and shelves. A first-floor room has a wide fireplace with a plain wood lintel. The roof retains two steeply-pitched original trusses with collars pegged to their faces, showing gouged carpenter's marks, through-purlins, and notched apexes without a provision for a ridge. Evidence of a former bakeoven remains at the rear.