Cadbury House

Cadbury House is a mid-17th century house and shop, extensively refurbished and partly rebuilt during the mid-19th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and has a slate roof. The house follows a T-plan layout. The main block faces north onto Fore Street and comprises three rooms. The left (east) end room is now a shop, while the centre room has an axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. A front lobby entrance leads to a staircase located to the rear of this stack. The right room has a gable-end stack. These front rooms originally served as the main living spaces. A rear block, projecting at right angles to the rear of the centre room, provides kitchen and service areas – originally two rooms, now combined with a lateral stack. Although the house underwent a thorough mid-19th century refurbishment, including raising the walls and adding a new roof, the original 17th-century layout was maintained. The right-end stack, however, is a 19th-century addition. The house is two storeys high and has a regular, though not symmetrical, four-window front. The ground floor features 16-pane sashes, while the first floor has smaller 12-pane sashes. A 20th-century shop front and door occupy the left end, alongside which is a lobby entrance containing a 19th-century six-panel door with panelled reveals. To the right, the roof is gable-ended, while to the left it runs continuously with that of Cadbury Cottage. The interior mainly reflects the mid-19th-century refurbishment, though some 17th-century carpentry detail remains on the ground floor. All three ground floor rooms of the main block have axial beams: the one in the shop is boxed in, the one in the centre room is soffit-chamfered, and the one in the right room is soffit-chamfered with long step stops. Only the centre room fireplace remains open, featuring a 19th-century pine chimneypiece. The rear block kitchen has a soffit-chamfered axial beam with scroll stops, and its fireplace is blocked. All the joinery detail is of mid-19th century origin. The roof was not inspected. The refurbishment of Cadbury House was linked to the construction of the adjoining Cadbury Cottage, and both buildings are part of a group of listed buildings near the Church of All Saints.