6, Cross Street

The building at 6 Cross Street is a house and shop, originally dating back to the early 16th century, and substantially rebuilt in the 19th century, with a 20th-century addition at the rear. It has a painted brick front with stone dressings, while the rear and likely much of the side walls are of rubble stone. The roof is hipped and slate-covered, featuring a late 19th or early 20th century red brick chimney.

The building is arranged with a one-room wide, two-room deep plan with a rear closet wing projecting on the right-hand side. Staircases are located between the front and back rooms and at the front end of the closet wing. The front elevation is three storeys high, with a two-window range dating to the mid or late 19th century. The ground floor contains a 20th-century shop front with fluted pilasters. The second-floor windows have segmental heads and hoodmoulds, while the third-floor windows have flat heads with rounded top corners. All windows are sash windows with two panes and marginal quarter-panes. A wooden eaves cornice incorporates a gutter ornamented with lion heads.

The ground floor has been combined into a single shop and extended backwards. The former rear room, likely the hall, contains a 16th-century limestone fireplace and a piscina set into the left-hand side wall. The fireplace has a Tudor arch with quarter-round and hollow mouldings, and its fire back is constructed of slates laid in a herringbone pattern. The chimney breast is of stone rubble and includes a relieving arch. The piscina, a rare feature possibly specifically made for the house, has a two-centred, trefoiled, and cusped head with three-leaf decoration in the spandrels, along with ogee and hollow mouldings and a surviving elaborate stop at the foot of the left side. The base, which incorporates a basin and drain outlet, is carved with four-leaf decoration. Both staircases are wooden, dating to the early or mid 19th century, with thin, square-section balusters.

Fireplaces, doors, and cornices on the first floor are of a similar date. A marble chimneypiece is located in the front room, and a wooden one with attached columns is in the rear room. Early or mid 18th-century doors are found on the ground and second floors. The roof structure is a 19th-century king-post-and-ridge design. Several old barred sashes are present in the rear wall. While the building has undergone significant rebuilding, original features may remain concealed within the side walls and possibly the floor structures. A former warehouse is located at the rear of the property (not included in the listing).