Nos 42 and 42a and Cottage to Rear of No 42

Nos 42 and 42A, along with the cottage at the rear of No 42, are a house and shop built in 1849. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof with coped gables and end wall stacks. It has two storeys and a five-window range. The upper floor has raised angle strips, a moulded cornice, a parapet, and five 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor includes four doors alternating with three plate glass shop windows. Each door has overlights and is framed by Doric pilasters that support a continuous frieze and moulded cornice. There is a blank window to the left of the left door and an additional pilaster, making a total of nine pilasters. The rear of the building has been altered; it was originally a two-window range with upper 12-pane sashes and a ground floor featuring tripartite 4-8-4 pane sashes. A recessed section to the right has stepped 12-pane sashes that light the staircase. The house served as a grocery and drapery store for the Spackman family from the early 19th century and was rebuilt after a fire in 1849. To the south-east at the rear is a 17th-century cottage made of rubble stone with a stone tile roof, a coped east gable, and an end stack. It features a picturesque 19th-century dormer and three-light ovolo-moulded windows on the first and ground floors, both with hoodmoulds, and an east end door.