20 Fore Street

20 Fore Street is a former open-hall house that likely dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It was remodeled and re-fronted in the 19th century, with later alterations.

The building is constructed of cob and stone, covered in render, and features slate tile roofs with brick gable-end chimney stacks. The three-storey front elevation is a 19th-century re-fronting of the earlier structure, arranged in two bays with a pitched roof and gable-end chimney stacks. Decorative timber pilasters frame the frontage, which has a deeply overhanging eaves cornice with concave coving beneath. A timber plat band with guttae detailing runs along the first floor, while the ground floor features a clay-tiled pentice roof with a moulded fascia that includes a continuous series of guttae. There are three doorways on the ground floor, each with transom lights above, flanked by two square bay windows of plate glass with leaded transom lights. The first-floor oriel windows, supported on timber brackets, are beneath pentice roofs and have plate glass casement windows with three-light leaded windows above. The second floor contains two eight-over-eight hornless sash windows with moulded architraves and hoods incorporated into the coving.

On the side elevation, there is a late 16th-century or early 17th-century square-headed, ovolo-moulded door frame with a later six-panel door, along with an eight-over-eight hornless sash window to its left.

Inside, the building retains fixtures and fittings from the late 16th or early 17th century, including a fireplace with splayed stone jambs and a timber bressummer that features an apotropaic mark. There is a timber plank and muntin screen, ceiling beams with cyma reversa moulding and step hollow stops, and a winder staircase. The roof consists of three king-post roof trusses with diagonally jointed principal rafters that are morticed and side-pegged, with a notch for the ridge-piece. Evidence of smoke blackening is visible on the truss in the north wall, which has been later infilled with wattle and daub.