The Trading Post

The Trading Post is a three-storey building with a stuccoed and painted front and a natural slate roof. It features a double depth central entrance plan. The ground floor has an early 19th-century small paned shopfront on the right side, consisting of three 4-pane windows, while the left side has a later replacement with a 3 x 6 pane window and a central double door. The first floor showcases carved wood oriel windows with three 4-pane casements. Although these windows have been raised, the cills and lintels date from around 1600 and are adorned with stylised animals, foliage, and the Vaughan arms. The second floor, likely added around 1870, contains three 2 over 2 pane sash windows. At the eaves level, there are six modelled heads of cattle arranged in a pattern of 1:2:2:1, reflecting its history as The Cow Temperance Inn. The plain roof is not easily visible from the street.

The ground floor retains evidence of the building's jettied origins, with surviving jetty posts on either side of the left half. This area has a 2 x 2 compartmented ceiling with triple roll-moulded beams, while the room to the right has plain cross-beams. Although both rooms are now joined, this layout may indicate that it was originally two houses. An early 19th-century staircase with stick balusters and a continuous handrail leads to the rear. The upper floors were not inspected during the resurvey, but they are reported to have been significantly modernised in their conversion to flats and are now accessed from the adjacent property, No. 4B.