Number 28 And Attached Buildings To Rear

Number 28 and the attached buildings to the rear are a house with a shop, dating from the late 18th century, with an early 17th-century building at the back. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings and has a rendered parapet. It features a hipped Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks.

The exterior is three storeys high and has three bays. The ground floor includes a through passage with early 20th-century flush panel doors to the left, followed by a later 20th-century shop front with plain glass doors nearly in the centre of the second bay, topped by a medium-depth plain fascia. The upper floors have sash windows in plain openings, complete with stone sills and flat gauged brick arches. The first floor has 16-pane windows, while the second floor has 12-pane windows, all beneath a cornice and plain parapet. The rear of the main building features a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window on the second floor.

Inside the front building, the ground floor has been opened up, but on the first floor, there are four fielded-panel doors and chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops. In the southeast corner, there is an 18th-century arched recess with a cupboard underneath. A carved corbel stone, possibly depicting a head, is located in the cupboard under the stairs. The second floor mostly has 19th-century partitioning, and the cellar was not seen.

At the back, there is an early 20th-century extension, followed by a crosswing that oversails the throughway and dates from the 19th century. Behind this is the 17th-century building, which is two storeys high and positioned at right angles to the road. It has a modern roof but retains two ovolo-mould stone mullioned windows—one with three lights and the other with four lights—though these are blocked internally. The windows still contain some old rectangular leaded glazing. Attached to the north end of this building are former stables, likely from the 18th century, featuring collar-beam roof trusses and diagonal windbracing, along with a brick paviour floor. There is a timber partition across the partial first floor, and in the west wall towards the rear, there are traces of a pointed arch doorway that is now blocked.