13, Cross Street

No. 13 Cross Street is a house and shop, now used as offices, dating from the early 19th century, or possibly earlier. It has a solid rendered front wall, likely made of brick or stone, and a slated roof with red ridge-tiles. There are no chimneys visible from the street. The building has a simple rectangular plan, consisting of three rooms wide and one room deep on the second floor. The left-hand room is heated by a gable chimney, while the right-hand rooms are heated by a single rear chimney. A late 19th-century staircase is located in the rear right-hand corner.

The building stands three storeys tall and features a three-window range. The ground storey has a pair of canted shop windows with space for a former doorway in between, all topped with a continuous entablature. There is an existing doorway to the right. The upper-storey windows have 8-paned sashes, except for the middle window of each storey, which is blind. Below the eaves, there is a moulded wooden board that carries the gutter.

Inside, the ground and first floors have been considerably altered. The first floor features 18th-century cupboard doors with raised-and-fielded ovolo-moulded panels and strap-hinges. On the second floor, the middle room has a fireplace with a moulded wood architrave and two doors with four ovolo-moulded panels, one of which retains its original metal catch. The front wall is thinner at this level, thickening only where it supports the roof trusses, suggesting that the structure may be older and was heightened in the early 19th century. The roof structure, likely of later date, remains intact, with trusses that have notched apexes, through purlins and ridge, and collars nailed to the faces of the trusses, along with some old common rafters.

The most notable feature of the building is the shop front, which is the earliest surviving example in the main shopping areas of the town.