Number 1 And Attached Railing Bases

Number 1 and its attached railing bases is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century with alterations in the late 18th and early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone, with a small central front addition of ashlar, brick, and stucco over timber framing. The roof is slate, with Welsh slate on the rear wing, and includes a rebuilt brick ridge stack and stacks on the rear wing. The house is in an "L" shape and includes a large rear wing; two gables face the street, the one to the right is set back and may be earlier than the larger gabled portion to the left.

The house has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front. The left-hand side retains two 6/6-pane sashes in 17th-century ovolo-moulded stone surrounds, where stone mullions and transoms have been cut out to the first floor. A small oval window is set within a late 18th or early 19th-century moulded stone surround in the centre. The right-hand side has a 17th-century three-light chamfered stone-mullion window with a hoodmould to the first floor. The left gable has a 17th-century ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom window, while the right gable has a 17th-century two-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullion window. The ground floor to the left features two 6/6-pane sashes in 17th-century ovolo-moulded stone surrounds, with mullions and transoms cut out, and a simple 19th-century shop window with a defaced hoodmould on the right. Moulded strings are present above the ground and first floors to the left-hand portion, and above the windows in both gables. A blank oval stone plaque is visible below a window in the left-hand gable.

The interior includes an enclosed winder staircase without a handrail to the first floor, and a late 17th-century closed-string dog-leg staircase with heavy turned balusters and a continuous newel to the second floor (the second floor was not inspected). The front left ground floor room features a simple late 18th or early 19th-century stone chimneypiece, an arched recess with an architrave surround to the left, a dado rail, and a chamfered beam with run-out stops. The front right ground floor room has a beam with applied plaster moulding dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. Limestone railing bases remain to the front left, although the railings themselves are missing.