The Sign of the Angel

The Sign of the Angel is a house dating from the late 15th century, constructed from rubble stone and timber-frame with stone slate roofs. It has two storeys and features an exceptionally fine front with two jettied gables, which were exposed in the early 20th century, above a largely intact stone ground floor. To the left, there is a lower narrow gable with a plastered upper floor and a triple casement window. The main range has a roof that is hipped to the west and includes a ridge stack. The left gable displays decorative framing above two 20th-century leaded oriel windows, while the right gable has applied planking over the framing and a pair of casement windows on the first floor.

On the ground floor to the left, there is a broad entrance passage featuring a Tudor-arched carved timber lintel and an inner plank door set in a pointed-arched hollow-moulded surround. In the porch area, there is a side doorway leading to a former shop, which has a front window with 15 panes inserted in a broad 15th-century hollow-moulded frame. The right side of the ground floor boasts a fine canted stone bay with a drip mould and 1-4-1-light hollow-moulded mullion windows. The east side has a stack, and the cross wing continues behind with exposed square framing on the east side wall, infilled with red brick. There is a massive stack at the north end.

Inside, the house features a through-passage, a large moulded fireplace with an altered head and a carved shelf backing onto the passage, and moulded beams. The east end has a moulded stone fireplace on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are wind-braced roofs in the small west room and the left room of the main range, which includes a Tudor-arched fireplace and panelling dated 1639. The building is said to have been constructed in 1480.