9 And 10, St Andrew Street

This is a two-story house, originally probably a single building, dating from the 18th century and remodelled in the mid-19th century. It was later used as a public house and was unoccupied at the time of inspection. The front of the building is faced with painted stone ashlar, while the left return features stone rubble with freestone and red brick dressings. The rear wall is of squared stone rubble, except for the red brick right (north) side wall to a rear wing. The roof is slate-covered, and there are stone chimneys with raised bands on the side walls and ridge of the main range, with those on the left rendered. A red brick chimney is on the rear gable of the wing.

The building has a complex plan, consisting of a double-depth range on the right-hand side, apparently comprising No. 9 and part of No. 10, and a corresponding L-shaped section on the left with a long rear wing extending down Ham Place.

The front has eight windows, with the two right-hand windows set in a tall gabled cross-wing. This wing has a doorway with a shallow pointed arch and a plank door, and a small three-paned window above the arch. To the right of the doorway is a three-light flat-headed window with Gothic stone columns as mullions, containing four-paned sashes. A chamfered string course runs above the ground storey. The second storey has two windows with shouldered heads containing six-paned sashes with margin panes. The gable, which has stone coping with kneelers and a trefoiled finial, has a window with a shallow pointed arch and a two-light wood casement with two panes per light. The left-hand section (with boarded-up openings) is divided into three bays by pilaster strips, with the strip between the two right-hand bays stopping short above a later doorway with a patterned architrave and cornice. A plain doorway is located at the left-hand end. Upper storey windows have continued sills.

The left return to Ham Place has mostly segmental-headed windows with stone surrounds and keystones (where the site slopes steeply downhill), with one basement window converted from a doorway. Other windows have red brick jambs and segmental arches. All windows are boarded up. The rear wall has windows with stone surrounds similar to those on Ham Place, some boarded up, but two have exposed eight-paned sashes. A dormer gable has plain bargeboards and a pair of two-light wood casements, each light containing two or three panes.

The interior of No.10 includes simple mid-19th century fireplaces, including one with an ornate cast-iron grate. The boarded windows are mostly small-paned sashes. No. 9 was not inspected. In 1881, the building was the Star Inn, run by Robert Hurley. It occupies a prominent setting in the street opposite the churchyard of St George's Church.