NHER 21556 (Building record) - The Old Shop, Back Street

The Old Shop, Back Street.

1980. Stray Find.
Found in plaster under rafters. 19th century child’s shoe wrapped inside cloth cap. Ritual deposit?
See correspondence (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 21 January 2005.

July 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Former shop, late 17th century, much altered in the 19th century. Built of red brick, rendered at ground floor level with red pantiled roof. Terraced, two storey and attic, with 19th-century single-storey wing to the south.
Street facade, four bays, sashes with glazing bars and segmental brick arches, central two bays are blank at first floor level. Below [is a] double shop front with central half glazed doors with fanlight above...Brick dentil eaves. Dormer with segmental head and casement window with glazing bars. End axial stacks. Two-storey and single-storey extension with 19th-century casements, sashes and horizontal sliding windows. Left hand parapet gable with brick tumbling in. Flat-topped dormer with casement window. Seventeenth-century beams in living room with ogee stops. Staggered butt purlin roof. Included for group value."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 March 2026.

The location of this record has been corrected. It was previously mapped as a point at TG 1003 2278.
P. Watkins (HES), 18 March 2026.