12, Hailes Street

This is a 16th and 17th century house and shop, extended and altered in the 19th century, situated in a row along Hailes Street, Winchcombe. The front of the building has a smooth, rendered finish to the timber-framed first floor, while the back is largely constructed of good quality dressed limestone. The roof is covered with stone slates, featuring a gable to the street accentuated by a 19th-century decorative barge board and bottom chord.

The street frontage is two storeys high, with a single window. This window is a 3-light 19th-century casement set in a damaged frame. Below it is a plate glass shop front with a 19th-century surround comprising consoles and a dentilled fascia, alongside a glazed door with a 4-pane transom light. A middle room features a king-mullion window with 3-light stone chamfered mullions, overlooking a former thoroughfare to the adjacent building at No 10. A further light with a chamfered surround is found at the rear gable. Timber framing is visible in the upper floor on the north side.

The interior has undergone several modifications. Notable features include a stone cross-vaulted cellar; a deep, rebuilt bressummer fireplace; heavy beam and joist floors; and a small, semicircular beaded opening adjacent to the central fireplace. Some ongoing modification work was noted during a survey in August 1983.