6, Fore Street

This is a shop with living accommodation above, dating from the early 19th century, with alterations from the later 19th century and later rear additions. It is built of stuccoed stone rubble, with a slate roof with gabled ends.

The building’s plan is two rooms wide, separated by an entrance passage, and three rooms deep. The original plan likely consisted of two rooms with an off-centre passage. The two original rooms now function as a shop, and the larger room on the left has an open stone screen separating it from a later rear addition. A further rear extension was added in the later 19th century, creating a plan three rooms deep.

The building is two storeys high, with a symmetrical three-window front. The second-floor windows are three 9-pane sashes with keyblocks in slightly cambered heads. The first-floor windows are larger 12-pane sashes, with the central window replaced in the later 19th century by a wooden canted bay window. The other first-floor windows retain their original glazing bars. On the ground floor, to the right of centre, is an original round-headed doorway with a semi-circular fanlight, panelled reveals, thin pilasters, and ornate cast-iron brackets supporting a flat, moulded canopy with a panelled soffit. It has a six-panel door. There are two later 19th-century shop fronts, double-fronted on the left and single-fronted on the right, each with shallow bay windows, thin corner shafts with moulded bases and capitals, and supporting moulded entablatures that are partially obscured by later blinds.

Inside, at the rear of the left-hand shop there is a stone screen of two Tuscan columns and two half columns, supporting elliptical arches, with the centre bay being wider. The entrance passage has a Gothic fanlight, original panelled doors, and plain stairs with stuck balusters. The first-floor room on the right front has a wooden chimneypiece with attached columns and a cast-iron grate.