King Richard'S House

King Richard's House is a historic building of medieval origin, traditionally linked to King Richard III. It has undergone alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries and has been restored. The main structure is a tall, gabled block with three storeys and an attic, constructed of stone with 16th-century brickwork at the gable head, and features a pantile roof.

The central attic has a three-light stone mullioned casement with a drip mould. There is a projecting rectangular bay with a hipped pantile roof, rising three storeys high, which contains twelve light mullioned casements on the first and second floors, and a three-light window on the ground floor to the left, accompanied by a ledged door to the right. This bay is a modern restoration, although the windows within the wall are original.

To the right, there is a lower two-storey extension with an attic, finished in painted stucco. It includes one window on the first floor and a half-glazed 18th-century door and shop window on the ground floor, which is seven panes wide and four panes high, set beneath a lean-to projection.

A notable feature is a reset grotesque effigy of King Richard from Newark, protected by an iron grill and set into the wall. Inside, on the second floor, the front room boasts a plaster ceiling decorated with a geometrical multi-curve pattern of thin ribs, featuring the York rose and the popinjay, which are the arms of Richard III, as a central motif dating from the late 16th century.

Nos 21 to 26, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.