Survey by RCHME of cottage and shop, 10 Maidenburgh Street, SE of St Helen's Chapel, was built late in the 16th or early in the 17th century and no doubt formed part of a larger building. The front is of modern brick. Inside the building the shop and the room behind it, formerly one room, have a rich plaster ceiling of c.1600 and divided into panels by intersecting ribs with foliated bosses and terminals; two panels have rose sprigs. The ceiling has been partly cut away for the staircase. Above the fireplace in the S wall is a plaster panel representing a pot from which a conventional orange tree is growing.' <1>

In 1995 a plaster ceiling cut into two pieces was rediscovered in the Castle Museum during alterations. It is probably the one referred to in the Castle Museum's Annual Report 1930-31, which says "plaster ceiling and wall ornaments from 10 Maidenburgh Street, c.1600, divided into panels intersecting ribs with foliated bosses and terminals".<3><4> The moulding projects about two inches from the surface of the plaster. Stylised floral motifs and Tudor rose bosses are joined together by ribs. A drawing of the ceiling is reproduced in the CAG Bulletin (1994 Vol. 37).<2>