2 And 3, Fore Street

FORE STREET 1. 5411 Nos 2 and 3 (formerly listed as No 2 No 3 (Barclay's Bank)) ST 8558 4/82 29.12.50. II* GV

1. Older house, refronted circa 1700. 2 storey and attic. Ashlar stone. Projecting plinth. String at 1st floor level. Narrow moulded cornice and parapet with moulded coping. Formerly 4 now 3 tall carved vases on parapet (right hand missing). Stone tile roof. 3 pedimented dormers, the central segmental, with heavily moulded heads. each with 2 light casements, and decorative leadwork to front verges. 7 glazing bar sash windows with bracketted cills and stone architrave surrounds on 1st floor. 8-panel central door on ground floor in stone doorcase of engaged Doric columns and entablature with block triglyph and rounded frieze, moulded cornice and segmental modillioned pediment. Barclay's Bank has modern windows to left hand of door and yard entry in left hand corner. The ground floor of No 2 altered and 'restored' with central replica Doric doorcase with segmental pediment, 6 panel door and steps protected by railings. Doorway flanked by glazing bar sashes with bracketted cills and moulded architraves. No 3 retains railing to an exiguous area and has been lately embellished by a projecting cast iron bank sign and ornate cast iron panelled standards with a lamp overthrow. In the east gable wall are traces of timber framing (now exposed) and in the roof and fine array of wind braces.

Nos 1 to 9 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8546658017