A heritage assessment was undertaken by Leigh Alston in June 2016 to inform and accompany a planning/Listed Building application for refurbishment.<1> The assessment records, the fabric of the walls is almost completely hidden by plaster, both inside and out, and it is possible that parts of an older structure are hidden within the 17th century building. The majority of the fabric appears to be timber-framed behind a facade that consists at least in part of rendered brick, but a fragment of medieval framing is visible in the central print shop. This consists of a 15th century doorway with only the left-hand (northern) half of its arch intact and evidence of a missing partition which apparently projected to the front and rear of its remaining jamb. An impressive medieval cellar, possibly of unusually early origin, lies beneath the front part of the house. It extends to 18.75 ft from front to rear (5.75 m) with flint-rubble walls and a ceiling of largely concealed flat-sectioned joists lodged on massive binding joists of approximately 16 inches in width by 15 in depth. These binding joists are supported by equally massive 9-inch thick braces that appear to have been tenoned to wall pieces resting on stone corbels projecting from the walls. The main timbers are hollow-chamfered and the maner of the ceiling’s construction, with its common joists resting on top of the binding joists rather than tenoned to their sides, is usually found only in the 13th century and before. Cellars with identical ceilings survive beneath the George Hotel in the High Street. However, and it is possible that this archaic technique continued into the 14th or 15th centuries in positions such as this. The existing Head Street facade with its fine oriel window is an alteration of the late-18th or (more probably) the beginning of the 19th century when flat-bottomed oriels of this kind became fashionable. A very similar example can be seen nearby at Bridge House in Middleborough (adjoining North Bridge).