The Forum Cafe

Two-and-a-half storey building of 2 bays. Rendered red brick facade with timber-framed core under a slate roof. The ground floor has modern shop windows; the upper floors are jettied-out over the pavement and has a moulded oak bressummer carried on 4 Tuscan stone columns. The first floor has 2 Victorian sashes with segmental heads and corbelled sills. A modern metal hanging sign is attached to the wall between the two and projects outwards towards the street. The attic floor has a broad catslide dormer with paired sash windows breaking the eaves; sill as before.

Exposed ceiling beams to ground and first floors; stopped-chamfered (some ogee) with heavy keying in places. Behind the main ground-floor room is the stairwell. This has a very fine full-height second-quarter C17 narrow well stair which rises through three floors to the attic where it terminates in a short gallery. The stair is of oak and has moulded, pierced and shaped balusters with square newels. These have strapwork relief carving to their faces and nail-head decoration to a broad string; geometric pendants and similar finial to the ground-floor newel (the remainder lost), with moulded rail. On the first floor are 2 stopped-chamfered entrances and a C20 brick fireplace; timber-framed partition truss to the attic floor.