5, Oxford Street

No. 5 Oxford Street is a house that dates from the early 17th century, with an early 18th-century front range. It is constructed of limestone rubble with limestone dressings, which was formerly limewashed, and has a brick right-hand gable and rear and left-hand lateral stacks. The roof features pantiles at the front and stone slates on the rear cross-gabled range. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the left-hand rear range enclosing a courtyard that opens to the west.

The house is two storeys high, with a cellar and attic, and has a two-window range. The doorway, located to the left of centre, features a timber bracketed canopy, a moulded ashlar surround, and a glazed door. There are 20th-century shop fronts on either side with plate-glass, and early 18th-century paired first-floor 6/6-pane sash windows with ashlar surrounds and thick glazing bars, with the middle section being windowless. The rear range has gabled dormers on each side, a blocked three-light oak-framed mullion window to the east with cyma mouldings, and timber lintels on the west side facing the courtyard, which includes three-light first-floor mullion windows and altered ground-floor openings.

Inside, the rear wing features a notable 17th-century ground-floor fire surround with a moulded four-centred arch and stops, along with two raised, chamfered bars. There is a similar arched fire surround on the first floor above. The ground-floor gable has a 19th-century brick fireplace with a cast-iron range and a right-hand chamfered jamb. The roof of the wing consists of three collar trusses, with an extended collar truss between the dormers and trenched purlins. There is an 18th-century brick fireplace in the end gable with a bread oven bay to the left, and splayed window reveals. The cellar includes a simple fireplace to the lateral stack and a flagged floor, with a canted wall at the north end, level with the back of the front range.

Historically, the wing may have once featured a gable facing the street.