20, The Close

20 The Close is a Grade II* listed building that was refronted in 1718, originally a medieval structure. It is two stories with an attic, built of brick on a stone plinth, featuring stone quoins and a first-floor string course. The building has a moulded wooden eaves cornice, a gutter adorned with a lion head ornament, and a hipped roof covered with old tiles.

All windows have stone surrounds, including three dormers with small sash windows and cornices. There are five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with a central stone porch added in 1840. This porch has round-headed sidelights, banded piers, an entablature, and a four-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight. Inside, there is a glazed and panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight featuring looped concentric glazing. A small six-panel door with an arched radiating and wreathed fanlight dates from the early 19th century.

To the left of the main building is a one-storey extension, while to the right is a two-storey extension with one window. The long rear wing is two stories and timber-framed, partly clad with oversailing tile-hung first floor and shaped tiles, topped with an old tile roof. The west front of this wing displays medieval stonework, flint rubble, and tiles inset. It features irregular 18th-century and later windows, and a large four-centred chamfered stone archway in the kitchen, which was formerly a carriageway and part of the stables for No 21 The Close.

On the west side, there is a two-storey red brick extension from around 1840, which has two recessed sash windows and a hipped slate roof. Inside the 1718 block, there is a notable mid to late 18th-century staircase with an open string, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail that sweeps up to the newels. The roof structure of the early wing is concealed but appears to have trusses with collars.

All the listed buildings in The Close form an outstanding group.