3 And 4, Fore Street

3 and 4 Fore Street are two shops with accommodation at the rear, dating from around the 1830s, though they have an earlier core. The first floor has been converted into flats, and the shop front was added in the 1880s. The building is plastered with a gabled slate roof, featuring a right end stack (the shaft has been dismantled) and axial stacks with old pots. It has cast-iron rainwater goods and is designed in an L-plan layout. The main block is two rooms wide and double-depth, with a rear right wing that projects into a court behind Fore Street. There is some fragmentary internal evidence of the earlier core.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical but regular three-bay front. The centre bay, which has banded rustication, is slightly advanced. It features deep eaves with a dentil cornice and a platband at the first-floor level, while the outer bays have an eaves band with a string course below. The ground floor's centre bay includes a shop front with a doorway to the right, flanked by pilasters with sunk panels and triglyph-decorated capitals, topped with a continuous cornice on shallow moulded consoles. The shop door is recessed and glazed, with an overlight and sunk panelled reveals. To the left, there is a 19th-century tripartite sash window with 16 panes in the centre and 4 in the outer lights. To the right, No. 4 has a recessed six-panel 19th-century door with an overlight and panelled reveals.

On the first floor, the two outer windows are early 19th-century 16-pane sashes in shallow round-headed recesses, while the central first-floor window is similar but set in a square recess with a floating cornice. The interior has been altered for shop use, with some partitions removed. The rear left room retains a 19th-century kitchen range in the fireplace, while the rear right room features a corner fireplace, likely dating from around 1700, and a chamfered cross beam that may also be early 18th-century. The roof is said to be concealed for fireproofing but is likely of interest.