The Trading Post

Stuccoed and painted front with a natural slate roof. Now with double depth central entrance plan (cf History). Three storeys, two bays. The ground floor has an early C19 type small paned shopfront, but only the right hand side, 3 x 4 panes, appears in late C19 photographs. The left hand 3 x 6 pane window is a later replacement, central double door. The first floor has carved wood oriel windows with three 4-pane casements. These windows have been heightened, but the cills and lintels date from c1600 and are carved with stylised animals, foliage and the Vaughan arms. The second floor, probably added in c1870, has three 2 over 2 pane sashes. At eaves level there are six modelled heads of cattle arranged 1 : 2 : 2 : 1 marking its time as The Cow Temperance Inn. Plain roof hardly visible from the street. Rear elevation not inspected.

The ground floor shows clear evidence of the building's jettied origins, having a surviving jetty post on either side of the left hand half. This room has a 2 x 2 compartmented ceiling with triple roll-moulded beams; plain cross-beams in room to right. Both rooms now joined in one, but it may suggest that it was two houses to begin with. Early C19 stair with stick balusters and continuous handrail to rear. Upper floors not available at resurvey, but they are said to have been much modernised in their conversion to flats and they are now accessed from next door, No. 4B.