19 King Street

Commercial premises of 4 bays and 2 storeys, painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof and no chimneys (old photographs show bracketed eaves and 2 dormers). Four first floor closely-spaced hornless sash windows with horizontal glazing bars and moulded stucco surrounds. Sill band below. Ground floor has altered late C19 shop front with large plate glass single-pane window each side of recessed centre door. Similar plate-glass canted in to doorway with 2-panel door and overlight. Thin turned wooden columns or half-columns at corners of windows, and moulded sill. Panelled pilasters to left and right of shop front with ornate brackets carved with face of Shakespeare to right and Chaucer to left, with cornice above.

Extensive C18 surviving features on upper floors. Staircase to attic with turned balusters and closed pulvinated string. Panelling with large fielded panels in 2 front rooms, panelled partition between rooms and moulded cornices. E room has fielded panelling on back wall, sunk panelling on partition wall, moulded cornices to 2-panel ceiling with encased centre beam. Fielded panelled shutters to both front rooms. Rear room also panelled.