52, Long Street

This is a late 17th-century town house, situated in a row, with an 19th-century wing at the rear constructed of various builds. The front of the building is roughcast with random rubble, while the rear wing is a combination of brick and timber framing. The front has a plain tile roof slope and the rear has stone slate. The house is three storeys with an attic, and the rear wing was originally two separate cottages.

The front elevation has a three-window arrangement of casement windows, all with ovolo-moulded stone mullions. The two ground floor windows have king mullions, arranged as 2+2 panes, and are set under a combined hoodmould. A door is located to the right, featuring a bolection-moulded architrave and a six-panel fielded door. The middle floor has two three-light windows and one two-light window, all under a combined hoodmould. The upper floor has three two-light windows, also under a combined hoodmould. The attic has three gables, each with a moulded oval window and 19th-century terracotta finials.

The rear has two gables, with a gabled projecting staircase wing in the centre, featuring a two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned casement on two levels. A gable to the left has two two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned casements on two levels. Another gable to the left has a two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned casement on the middle floor and a 20th-century casement above. The right gable is obscured by the rear wing and is partly built in brick. A workshop, formerly used by a cabinet maker, is located at the end of the wing and has timber-framed panels with weatherboarded cladding and a shingle roof.

The interior features ogee-moulded beams on the ground and middle floors, transitioning to hollow moulded beams on the upper floor; all with run-out stops. An oak dog-leg staircase has turned balusters. A good late 18th or early 19th century iron fireplace in an Adam-style is found in a middle floor room. A stone-lined well in the garden may predate the house. The building was formerly the White Hart Inn, but it was originally built as a town house, reportedly for a Flemish clothier.