17, Barton Street

17 Barton Street is a small house in a row that includes a café. It likely served as the solar wing to the adjoining house. The building features a late 16th-century refronting of a 15th-century structure. It is timber-framed with plaster panels and has a tile roof. The house has a right-angle plan with a gable facing the street, standing two storeys high with an attic and basement, and has two windows.

The gable contains a small two-light window above two-light casements with a transom and horizontal bar at the first floor. Notably, there are fine late 18th-century or early 19th-century multi-pane canted bow shop fronts flanking a part-glazed door, all under a simple fascia. A basement grille is present, with access under the right-hand window. The ornamental-panelled and studded frontage features herringbone framing at the first floor and small-panel framing in the gable, which connects to the main transverse roof shared with the adjoining No. 16.

On the ground floor, there are a pair of heavy posts with a jetty bracket near the front, along with another pair of posts and a heavy transverse beam leading to a short bay within. At the rear, the 15th-century structure has undergone later alterations, including a late 16th-century right-angled bay. The interior includes a 15th-century three-bay roof with clasped purlins and windbracing in the first-floor chamber, which was originally open to the roof. The floor levels feature beams dating from the late 16th-century remodelling. The 15th-century structure likely functioned as a solar wing to a large late medieval hall house, probably No. 16. The shop front is a notable and remarkably complete example from its period.