Holland & Barrett

Holland & Barrett is a three-storey building featuring twin gables, constructed from brick and rubble with recently renewed slate roofs. The building has decorative cusped and pieced bargeboards with geometric wooden pendant-finials and plain lateral brick chimneys. The ground floor includes a large shop front with a four-bay shop window on the right and an entrance to the left side. Slightly recessed to the left is a large boarded entrance with an arched, grilled vent above, which leads to a passage that provides access to the rear of the premises. A plain frieze and a moulded, dentilated cornice run along the entire length of the facade, supported to the left of the passage entrance by a scrolled corbel.

The upper floors feature asymmetrical windows; the left gable has a first-floor canted wooden bay with a lead roof, while the right gable section has two large cross-windows with part-fixed and part-casement glazing. There are two additional similar windows on the second floor, which have shallow segmental heads and three-pane lower sections. Between the upper windows is a modern sign bracket.

Inside, the first-floor front-facing room boasts a three-bay ceiling with moulded plaster marginal ribbing and boxed, plastered beams. In a rear first-floor chamber, there is an exceptionally fine Elizabethan fireplace dating from around 1570. This fireplace features a large projecting plaster hood that is corbelled out on a plastered bressummer, which is supported by stone Renaissance figures: an atlas figure on the left and a caryatid on the right, both with Ionic capitals. These figures rise from inverted obelisks and have truncated arms that are voluted at the shoulders. The fireplace is adorned with relief decorations, including swags and mask motifs, and has modern polychromy. The lime-hair plaster on the fireplace hood and the adjoining wall to the right remains undisturbed.