The Black Lion Antiques Shop

The Black Lion Antiques Shop is a Grade II listed building that features a front that was brought forward in the 18th century, along with various modern additions. It has a two-storey front with a plinth, displaying two plus one windows on the roughcast Black Lion side and two windows on the rubble Antique shop side to the left. The slate roof is hipped at the right end and slopes down to the corner, with lower eaves on the right side, which is likely part of a 17th-century cross wing. There are low set rubble end chimney stacks, particularly on the right, which has weather-coursing, and a central stack on the ridge. The building mainly has small pane sash windows, with the Antique shop featuring one partially blocked window on the ground floor, possibly inserted into a former doorway, and Victorian sash windows on the first floor. A vertical break in the centre of the Black Lion suggests the junction between the 17th-century forward cross wing and the 18th-century refronting. The entrance to the Black Lion is located to the left and features a bracketed hood and a half-glazed door, while the Antique shop has a similar central entrance. There is also a small pane sash window on the right end, which has an extensively modernised gable-ended cross range and an attached modern extension. The lower cross range at the rear right is partly occupied by the Antique shop, with an outer verge raised and a modern dormer added to the inner side, as well as a rubble chimney breast on the end, heightened in brick.

Inside, the building retains considerable 17th-century detail, including exposed beams in the bar, some of which are stop chamfered. There is a curved stone staircase leading to the cellars, which has a part cobbled floor. Evidence of the building's widening includes a former three-light timber frame window on the first-floor landing. The broad staircase has had its balusters removed. The first-floor corridor retains some fine reused 17th-century wainscoting with carved flowers in panels, while other panelling is Georgian. The most notable room is the Cromwell room, created from the flooring-in of an open roof hall, which retains a half loft or gallery with a roll stop chamfered bressummer and a modern balustrade, as well as pegged posts and panelling on the walls. The interior of the Antique shop has been altered, featuring a stop chamfered beam in the central passage and dado panelling in the parlour.