The Wheatsheaf Inn

The Wheatsheaf Inn is a Grade II listed building located on Fish Row. The west range, known as No 9, dates from the mid-14th century and is two storeys with a gabled roof. The east range, No 7, is from the first half of the 15th century and also features two storeys with an attic and a gabled roof. Both ranges are timber framed and have jettied upper floors, with the overhang on No 9 concealed.

No 7 has been restored and features shallow wood frame bays, with six lights on the first floor and five lights on the second floor, retaining original moulded sills. The ground floor has been modernised with a door and a large bar window for the Wheatsheaf Inn. No 9 has a small two-light casement in the attic and an early 19th-century small tripartite flush framed sash window on the first floor, with intact glazing bars. The ground floor has a modern shop front that partly returns to the west, with irregular flush framed sashes on the first floor. The rest of the ground floor is finished in painted brick, featuring tall 19th-century recessed sashes with intact glazing bars and a glazed door.

The property also includes a three-storey block facing New Canal, which was rebuilt in the early 19th century and has a hipped tiled roof. It features one sash window with glazing bars on the second floor, a large canted bay window with sash lights and reeded surrounds on the first floor, and five small camber-headed windows on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century single-storey block to the right.

Inside, No 7 has exposed wall posts on the first floor and chamfered ceiling beams. The second floor features a 17th-century plaster casing on two beams with winged beasts in a frieze, along with a 15th-century fireplace. The roof retains purlins and windbraces. No 9, the west range from the mid-14th century, has remains of a crown post roof. Nos 7 and 9 form a group with Nos 9 and 11 Butchers Row.