The Tuck Shop

The Tuck Shop is a shop with accommodation above, likely dating from the 16th century. It features a timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century chimneystack that has been reclad in the early 19th century at the rear and early 20th century at the front. The front elevation is now covered in curved tiles on the first floor and pebbledash on the ground floor. The building has a tiled roof with a staggered early 17th-century brick chimneystack. It is two storeys high with attics and has four windows. There are gabled dormers with casement windows, bargeboards, and ceramic finials. The first floor has four 3-light casements with glazing bars only in the upper parts. In the centre of the first floor, there is a plastered rectangular panel depicting a vase with vine and grapes. The ground floor features three canted bays under a bellhang and two doorcases with wooden brackets. The large shopfront on the right has panels of stained glass. The rear elevation is partly red brick in Flemish bond with some black headers and partly stone with brick dressings. Inside, there are four timber-framed bays with a 16th-century frame, including gunstock jowled posts and curved braces to the midrail. The first-floor lounge has an early 17th-century brick fireplace and a spine beam with lamb's tongue stops. At the top of the staircase, there is an early 17th-century polygonal finial on the newel post, and the ground floor has 2-inch chamfered beams.