16, Barton Street

No. 16 Barton Street is a house with a shop, originally remodeled in the mid or late 16th century from an earlier structure. It features a rendered timber-frame construction, a tile roof, and a brick stack. This small-scale property has twin gables and two jettied storeys, with the front range parallel to the street. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has two windows. Each gable includes a small vertical light, while the first floor has two-light casements with a horizontal bar. The ground floor features a 2+3-light 19th-century display window on a high stall-riser, and to the left is an 18th-century door with a decorative cast-iron grille in the upper half. The ground floor has been underbuilt to the jetty, and the first floor has a moulded casing to the bressumer. The gables, which extend back to the main transverse roof, are adorned with 19th-century scalloped barge-boards and finials. A tall brick ridge stack is located to the right. At the rear, 18th-century work includes casements with thick glazing bars.

Inside, the ground floor has a very low ceiling with various beams. The shop front features two cast-iron quatrefoil-section columns supporting the main bressumer. The building has a 16th-century two-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins, and the moulded tie beam along with other timber frame elements, which are largely obscured, suggest earlier origins, likely from a 15th-century hall house, of which No. 17 has survived as the former solar wing.