27&28 Hereford Street

27 and 28 Hereford Street is a two-storey building with a rubble front and a slate roof, featuring a square chimney stack over No 27. The part-roughcast gable end of the 16th-century wing forms the front of No 28. Both properties have two-light small-pane casements on the first floor and modern cross-frame windows below. The ground floor includes cambered voussoirs above two half-glazed doors. The main entrance is now located on the roughcast right end, accessed beyond a boarded door that closes off side access. There is a modern rear extension.

This late-medieval building retains three cruck trusses, although they are incomplete. The truss between Nos 26 and 27 has been cut at the rear, the right-hand truss has been altered by the insertion of the chimney, and the left end truss has been boxed in. The right-hand (eastern) truss originally contained a partition between the hall and solar, and smoke-blackening on the timbers indicates that there was once a central open hall, which was floored over by the end of the 16th century, likely after the addition of the storeyed wing. There are modern stairs present.

Backing onto the main chimney is a later fireplace set at a skewed angle, adjacent to a much-altered timber-framed partition that divides the parlour and rear service room in No 28. Of exceptional interest is a fragmentary wall painting from around 1600, located on a panel of wattle and daub within this partition. The painting, known as 'antique-work' and typical of the period from 1550 to 1620, depicts two nude figures standing beside a central urn with a fluted base against a black background. Given its date, it may be contemporary with the addition of the wing, and the rarity of this style is highlighted by the fact that only one other Welsh example is known to survive. There is also said to be a similar panel beneath plaster on the rear side of this partition, possibly relocated.