Ye Olde Shoppe

Ye Olde Shoppe is a house and shop located on Salisbury Street in Amesbury, dating from the 16th century or early 17th century. The building is constructed of whitewashed brick and flint, topped with a tiled roof. It stands two storeys high and features three bays. The left two bays, situated between prominent stacks, have a symmetrical 18th-century shopfront that includes paned bow windows and a central half-glazed door, with a blind box above. The first floor is adorned with 12-paned sash windows. To the right of these bays, there is a six-panelled door opposite a stack, and the third bay has 16-paned sash windows on both floors. At the rear, there is a 19th-century timber-framed outshut. The building has deep eaves, and the stacks feature diagonally set flue shafts on brick bases that reach ridge level, with the left stack having two flues and the right stack having three. Inside, the shop, which is now a bakers shop, originally had a wattle and daub partition between the two original bays. The left stack includes an early 17th-century carved overmantel and 17th-century panelling on the rear wall, which was refixed in the 19th century. The interior also features stop-chamfered spine beams with large ogee stops.