1, 1a and 1b, Well Street

The building at 1, 1A, and 1B Well Street is a shop, offices, and dwelling dating to the early 19th century, with earlier origins and alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The front is rendered over brick, with incised masonry patterns and painted to ground floor, and has a slate roof with a rendered brick end stack to the right. It is an L-shaped building, originally with a three-storey, three-window front. The central entrance has a 20th-century double-leaf door, approached by a single stone step with an over-light, contained within a wood surround featuring flattened columns with Greek Doric capitals and an entablature with deep enriched cyma reversa and cornice hood. This is flanked by late 19th-century pilastered shop windows with open pediments. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows with moulded wood surrounds and segmental-arched heads; similar sashes are on the second floor, either side of a central dummy window, also with moulded wood surrounds. A cellar grating is visible beneath the left-hand shop window. Other details include a plinth and deep projecting bracketed eaves. A single-storey extension to the rear left has a lean-to roof covered in plain tiles. A two-storey wing to the rear right (No. 1B) is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with courses of squared limestone rubble to the ground floor window sills, and has a plain-tile roof. This wing consists of two distinct builds, and is adjoined by a former two-storey outbuilding. The wing has a central plank door flanked by windows with continuous wood lintels, and 16-pane sash windows to the first floor with flat-arched heads, with brick ridge stacks. The former outbuilding has a pair of plank doors to the centre - the right-hand door with a segmental-arched head, the left-hand door with a wood lintel and a loft door above – as well as 10-pane sashes to the ground floor and 2-light casement windows to the first floor. The interior includes a stone cellar and boxed spine beams with run-out stops.