Seven Stars Public House

The Seven Stars Public House is a building formed by combining two small houses, one fronting onto Church Close and the other onto Smith Street. The house on Smith Street dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, while the house on Church Close likely dates from the 17th century, with both undergoing significant later alterations. The construction is varied, featuring stone rubble side walls—the western wall appears to have been largely rebuilt—and plastered timber framing, some of which is lightly blocked to resemble ashlar. The building has rendered chimney shafts and a slate roof.

Originally, the two houses were back-to-back, each being small houses terminating in the street with stacks in their shared eastern party wall.

The building is three storeys high with attics. The narrow, one-window Church Close frontage appears to be largely from the late 18th or early 19th century, with 20th-century alterations. Ground-floor windows are 20th-century casements with a leaded diamond-pane effect, similar to other windows on the property. The window to the left likely obscures the original doorway off Church Close. A canted bay window extends through the first and second floors, containing pairs of twelve-pane sashes with narrow four-pane side sashes. A third-floor casement is topped with a truncated pyramid head under a half-hipped roof end. The western side wall is an irregular three-window range with 20th-century windows, and a 20th-century doorway is located left of centre; architectural fragments from the church are incorporated above the lintel. The narrow south front onto Smith Street displays exposed upper-eastern wall, corbeling out to support a deep first-floor jetty, indicating the survival of some late 16th/early 17th century fabric behind the plaster. A late 16th/early 17th century oak doorway on the right features a low Tudor arch with a chamfered surround and sunk spandrels; all windows on this side are 20th century. The roof is hipped with deep eaves and a plastered soffit that extends around the left end.

The interior is largely the result of 19th and 20th-century modernization, although some original exposed timber ceilings remain, some of which were added later.