4, Queen'S Square

No. 4, Queen’s Square is a house. It likely has a 17th-century core, but was largely remodelled in the 19th century. The exterior is cob with a stone plinth, plasterwork, and a gabled slate roof. The main range may have originally had a three-room, cross-passage layout, with a rear wing extending from it. Internal brick chimney stacks are present, including end stacks and one axial stack. The front elevation has a four-window range. The first floor has two 12-pane horned sash windows, a semi-circular headed unhorned sash window to the stairwell with 9 panes above and 6 below, and a three-light casement window to the right. The ground floor features an early 19th-century doorway with a pediment, reeded pilasters, panelled reveals, and scratch moulding to the door surround. The door itself is panelled and reeded. To the right of the doorway are a 12-pane horned sash window and a 20th-century window. The rear elevation has a three-window range; the original openings have been fitted with 20th-century plate-glass sash windows. A central doorway has fielded panel reveals, and the door is partly panelled and glazed. A wing has a semi-circular stair window with margin panes and a 12-pane horned sash to the left of the doorway. An extension to this wing includes a 16-pane unhorned sash window with margin panes on the first floor, and a double door with margin panes. The interior retains early 19th-century features. The main room to the right of the entrance, possibly the former hall, has a large Jacobean style chimney piece, likely much renewed in the 19th century, featuring pilasters, fluting, heads above, caryatids on the first tier, and an arcade of semi-circular headed arches.