30 Westgate Street

This is a mid-17th century shop with living accommodation above, altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. A rear addition from the mid to late 20th century has been removed from the listing.

The building is timber-framed. The projecting front has been modified and rebuilt, now clad in plywood. The timber frame has been reconstructed in part and reinforced with a steel frame at first-floor level, along with metal bracing on some timbers. The pitched roof has been re-tiled with pantiles. A mid-19th century rear range is built of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern.

The original 17th-century section forms the front range, incorporating the front half of a side passage. A stair turret is set back from the centre of the rear. Behind the 17th-century part is a two-storey, mid-19th century addition, and a mid to late-19th century single-storey extension to the side passage, the glazed roof of which has been removed.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic. The front elevation has a late 20th-century glazed shop front, with a rebuilt jettied first floor extending to the roofline. Three mid-20th century plate glass, horned sash windows are located on the first and second floors, with a small sash window in the gable, all set within 19th-century timber architraves. The rear elevation of the 17th-century section includes an inserted 18th-century style six-over-six sash window in the stair turret and another window on the rear wall to the left. The ground and first floor of the rear elevation are obscured by 19th-century extensions.

The ground floor has been opened into a single shop unit, with a partition wall re-inserted to separate it from the side passage. An egg and dart cornice on the ground floor was probably added in the early 20th century. A winder staircase rises from the first floor to the attic; the lower section of the staircase has been removed. The treads were replaced in the 20th century, as was the attic-level balustrade, though it retains part of its original 17th-century newel post. Timber boards to the stair turret walls feature late 19th century sanitary wallpaper between the first and second floors. The upper floors retain 17th-century timber framing, including a cross-axial chamfered beam with run-out stops, and a post with mortice holes, which might suggest an earlier oriel window on the first floor. There is also a substantial amount of late 20th-century oak framing, along with a significant steel frame at first-floor level. The roof structure retains two 17th-century roof trusses with principal rafters, collars, yokes, and a ridge purlin, along with some remaining common rafters. The two end trusses were rebuilt in the late 20th century.