Holland & Barrett

Twin-gabled 3-storey building of brick and rubble with renewed slate roofs; cusped and pieced bargeboards with geometric wooden pendant-finials and plain lateral brick chimneys. The ground floor has a large shop-front with a 4-bay shop window to the R and an entrance to its L return. Recessed slightly to the L of this is a large boarded entrance with arched, grilled vent above. This gives access to a passage leading to the rear of the premises. Plain frieze and moulded, dentilated cornice along the whole length of the facade, supported to the L of the passage entrance by a scrolled corbel. Asymmetrical windows to the upper floors: the L gable has a first-floor canted wooden bay with lead roof, whilst the right-hand gabled section has 2 large cross-windows with part-fixed and part-casement glazing; 2 further, similar windows to the second floor, with shallow segmental heads and 3-pane lower sections. Between the upper windows is a modern sign bracket.

The first-floor front-facing room has a 3-bay ceiling with moulded plaster marginal ribbing and boxed, plastered beams. In a rear first-floor chamber is an exceptionally fine Elizabethan fireplace of c1570. This consists of a large projecting plaster hood corbelled-out on a plastered bressummer. This, in turn, is supported on stone Renaissance terms, an atlas figure to the L and a caryatid on the R, with terminating Ionic capitals; the figures rise out of inverted obelisks and have truncated arms voluted at the shoulders. Associated relief decoration includes swags and mask motifs; modern polychromy. Undisturbed lime-hair plaster to the fireplace hood and wall adjoining to the R.