4, Longsmith Street

No. 4 Longsmith Street is a shop and dwelling, now serving as a shop and restaurant. It dates from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with rendered panels, a slate roof, and a brick stack. It has a front gable range that is positioned at right angles to the street and is four bays deep.

The exterior consists of two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The gable-end front has jetties at the first and second-floor levels, supported by knee brackets at the outer corners. The ground floor includes a 20th-century shop front with an entrance doorway to the right. The first floor showcases exposed timber framing, with an intermediate rail and studs framing large panels beneath each sill of two similar 19th-century casements that feature central horizontal glazing bars. There are narrow panels both below and above the intermediate rail in the centre between the casements, as well as at each end. The attic floor has a full-width panel between the bressumer and the tie beam in the gable, with panels in the gable between the beam and the collar tie framing a central 20th-century two-light window, along with panels above the tie beam. The framing at the ends of the side walls has been revealed due to the recession of the modern street alignment.

Inside, the ground floor displays some exposed framing, including a diagonal brace in the east side wall and in the rear wall. The first floor consists of a single room with step-stopped, chamfered bridging beams, with the end of one beam supported by a surviving knee brace. In the attic, there are angle-braced trusses with collar ties and purlins. The stone-walled cellar features chamfered bridging beams.