12, West Street

This is a house with a shop, likely dating from the 16th or early 17th century, and potentially earlier. The front is rendered over a timber frame, with a slate roof and a rendered chimney on the left side wall. It is two storeys high with a garret, and originally one room wide and two rooms deep, with a central staircase to the right and a passage to the left of the rear ground-floor room. The house has a gabled end and a jettied first floor, supported by a large plastered corbel at the right-hand end. The ground floor has two plain shop windows and a half-glazed 19th-century door with moulded bottom panels, located slightly to the left. There are 8-pane sash windows on the second floor, and a 2-light wood casement with glazing bars in the centre of the gable. The gable features 19th-century patterned bargeboards and a finial.

Inside, the ground-floor front room has a chamfered ceiling beam with possible stop-chamfered stops. A dog-leg staircase from the early 18th century rises to the garret, featuring turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels. A rear inner doorway on the left side has a chamfered wood lintel with a corbel on the left side, leading to a passage. This passage has unusual early or mid-17th century panelling on the right side: horizontal planks with ovolo-moulded ribbing nailed on to form small rectangular panels. On the first floor, a stud-and-panel partition is positioned towards the rear room with a scratch-mould, and chamfered towards the staircase. 18th-century panelled doors are present throughout. The roof structure incorporates lap-jointed collars with shaped ends (some missing), threaded purlins, and lacks a ridge, with no evidence of smoke-blackening.