10 Fore Street

C17 house with early-C19 frontage. The ground-floor shopfront is a late-C20 insertion. C19 and C20 alterations.

MATERIALS: the principal elevation is rendered, and the gable-end roof is covered with slate tiles.

PLAN: a ground-floor shop unit, with flats above, and a rear range.

EXTERIOR: a three-storey, two-bay façade, with attic accommodation and a ground-floor shopfront. The partly-recessed ground floor comprises a late-C20 multi-pane window flanked by doorways, and to the right, projecting forwards, a late-C20, dual-aspect, multi-pane shopfront window. To the right is a console bracket from a previous shopfront which is supported on a reeded pilaster with a Tudor rose motif. To the first and second floor is a symmetrical two-window range of one-over-one horned sash windows, and a hornless sash window to the attic, also with plate glass. The windows are set within plain architrave. The first and second floors are framed by plain pilasters and a moulded cornice below the gable end. To the rear is a modillion eaves cornice below the gable-end wall.

INTERIOR: the ground floor has been opened up to form a single unit.