18 Palace Street

A 2-storey house set forward from 16a Palace Street, of scribed roughcast brick front and slate roof. The shop front has a half-lit panelled door to the R and a shop window with wooden mullions. The doorway and window are framed by panelled pilasters, plain fascia, and dentilled cornice. In the upper storey are 2 early C20 4-pane sash windows. The pebble-dashed rear has a lower wing with brick end stack, and a later monopitched projection.

A stone winding stair leads to a cellar. The wooden stair to the upper storey is C19. In the upper storey of the rear wing is a single surviving C17 queen-post truss with plaster infill. A lath and plaster partition is between the upper storeys of Nos 16a and 18, while in the lower storey a timber-framed partition is on a stone sill with sill beam, and retains wooden boarding.