Campden House

Campden House comprises two houses, now shops, offices, and a flat, likely dating to the early 18th century, with possible origins in the mid-17th century, and altered in the late 18th century. The construction is of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof. The building has three stone ridge stacks, with the upper parts rebuilt in brick and render, on the left and right ends.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and cellar, and has a seven-window front. The first floor features six 6/6-pane sash windows and one blind window to the far right, all within moulded stone architraves with keyed lintels and moulded stone cills. The upper second floor has three 2/2-pane sashes on the left (No.6), and two early 18th-century 3/9-pane sashes and two blind windows mirroring the pattern on the right, also in moulded stone architraves with moulded stone cills. The ground floor has two 6/6-pane sashes in similar architraves to the left (No.6), while the right side has three sections of plate glass in matching architraves.

No.6 has a moulded stone doorcase with reeded pilasters, rosettes within the spandrels of the round-headed opening, a frieze, and a moulded cornice, topped by a 3-pane overlight and a six-panel door. No.4 features a six-panel door, now partially glazed with a 3-pane overlight, set within a late 19th-century flat surround. Two gabled dormers contain 2-light timber casements. A deep plinth includes three cellar openings, two to the left, and one to the right, incorporating an 18th-century wrought-iron grating. Moulded strings are present above the ground and first floors.

The interior of No.6 was partially inspected and has been significantly altered in the 20th century. No.4 retains early 18th-century panelling along the right side wall of the ground-floor shop, including a shell-head niche to the left of a mid-19th-century marble fireplace with a matching grate. Fragmentary panelling is on the opposite wall. The windows have splayed reveals internally, together with late 18th/early 19th-century shutters, a soffit panel, and other original joinery. A plastered beam with run-out stops featuring notches and plaster leaf decoration (comparable to that found at Dunstall House, the Old Grammar School, and Nos. 9-17 Market Place) is in the ground floor rear room.

A small 19th- and 20th-century staircase connects the ground and first floors. An early 18th-century oak closed-string staircase with turned balusters and an upstanding grip handrail serves from the first to the second floor. A small triangular room on the first floor front right has an early 18th-century moulded stone fireplace with a keyed lintel and an early 19th-century grate. There are remnants of early 18th-century panelling in the reveal of a blocked window, and the room is defined by panel partitions with a timber cornice, as is a six-panel door leading to the front left room (uninspected). The front right second-floor room also features early 18th-century stone fireplaces and chamfered beams with run-out stops.