6 and 8, Silver Street

This is a late 17th and early 18th century house, later altered in the late 18th century, and now forming an attached pair. The exterior is rendered over limestone rubble at the rear, with a brick ridge stack and an interlocking tile roof, incorporating stone slates at the rear. The plan is of three rooms with a lobby entrance and a through-passage on the left.

The building is two storeys and an attic with a 2:1-window arrangement. The left-of-centre and later left-hand doorways have flat timber canopies supported by iron brackets, and contain 18th-century doors with six flush panels. Number 6 has a double 20th-century ground-floor window with glazing bars, and 8/8 and 10/10-pane sash windows on the first floor, set in exposed boxes. Number 8 features a wide 19th-century bay window with paired 12-pane windows on the ground floor, a 10/10-pane sash window above, and a casement dormer with a cambered head. The rear of the building includes an 18th-century gabled service range associated with Number 6, and a similar 19th-century brick range belonging to Number 8.

The interior of Number 6 contains a flagged through-passage, a ground-floor stone fireplace with a bressumer and splayed sides, including a left-hand niche, a central 19th-century lateral staircase to the first floor, studwork partitions, and an attic winder staircase to the rear of the stack. The roof, partly obscured, has tenoned purlins, lapped collars and diagonal bracing.