5, Fore Street

No. 5 Fore Street is a house that was formerly a shop and is now a café, dating from around 1820 or earlier. It has smooth plastered mass wall construction, with a roof at the front concealed behind a parapet. The rear roof is slated and hipped, with the house oriented end on to the road. There are two right stacks with brick shafts featuring bands, and a left end stack towards the rear with an old brick shaft and bands. The building is two rooms deep and one room wide.

The exterior is three storeys high with a symmetrical two-bay front that includes rusticated pilasters. The plain coped parapet ramps down to the centre. The ground floor retains remnants of a circa 1830s shop front, featuring two fluted Greek Doric columns at either end that now support a large, plain projecting fascia. In the centre, there is a probably early 20th-century bay window with three lights, high-transomed and with small panes above the transom. There are doorways on both sides; the left-hand doorway is round-headed with a glazed door and a low panel, while the right-hand doorway is similar but has a plain fanlight above the glazed door.

On the first floor, there are probably late 19th-century four-pane sash windows with segmental heads. The second floor features circa 1830s twelve-pane sash windows. The rear elevation is less altered, cement rendered with a hipped roof. There is a 20th-century half-glazed rear door to the left with a glazed side panel and a three-pane overlight. The left-hand bay has two early 19th-century twelve-pane sash windows, with the first-floor window altered to one pane in the top light. The right-hand bay has three early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash windows, with the ground-floor window altered to one pane only in the top light.

The interior has been partially inspected and shows alterations for commercial use on the ground floor. There is a stair cell between the front and rear rooms with a stair rising axially.