1 And 3, Maristow Street

The buildings at 1 and 3 Maristow Street date from the 18th century. They are two storeys with an attic and cellar, constructed of colourwashed brick with a projecting plinth. A moulded stone string runs just below the first-floor sill level, and there are chamfered stone quoins and a moulded stone eaves cornice. Moulded stone surrounds are present on all windows, although the stone is painted. The roof is covered in old tiles and features two dormer windows with architrave surrounds and lead mats. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars.

The front elevation has three windows on the first floor and one window to the right on the ground floor, which has a central nine-panelled door. The lower three panels are glazed with early 20th-century coloured leaded glass, set within a painted stone porch shaped like a half-ellipse. The porch is supported by two slender Doric columns and pilasters on wall face, all with moulded caps, bases, and plinths, and topped by an entablature composed of an architrave, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice, with a lead flat above. Three moulded stone steps lead up to the entrance.

Number 1 is a slightly later extension to the left, designed in a similar style with an old tile roof which is hipped to the left. It has one window on the first floor. A late 19th-century shop front is located on the ground floor, incorporating extensions and the left-hand bay of the main house. It features a recessed central entrance, a continuous fascia, cornice, and brackets.

Historically, the buildings, along with numbers 5 and probably 7, served as the town residence of the Lopes family (Lords of the Manor from 1810 to 1904). Numbers 3 and 5 have been altered to allow a first-floor extension of one window above a former coach arch, which sits to the left of number 5. A blocked window dating from the early to mid-18th century is present at the rear, where an early 19th-century staircase now runs.