From left to right, 17 Market Hill and 31-25 Church Street, all of which formed the Sun Inn between the mid-C17 and c.1870. 17 Market Hill comprises the first two gables (the nearer one is of C16 origin; the next one was the service wing of the C14 house, the remainder of which now forms 29 and 31 Church Street; both sections received pargetted plasterwork in the C17, perhaps at the time that the inn was formed, but were extensively restored in the C19); 29 and 31 Church Street comprise the two small gables and the next jettied gable (the hall and solar cross-wing of a house of C14 origin, altered in C16, decorated with pargetted plasterwork [some of which is dated 1676], and extensively restored in 1871 when owned by G. S. Gibson, a member of a Quaker family prominent in the town - according to the listing, "all windows and doorways [were] either remade or heavily restored in Tudor style"); the remaining two jettied gables are on 25 and 27 Church Street (
see here for more information).
List descriptions:
17 Market Hill:
www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/11... ;
29 and 31 Church Street:
www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/12... [wrongly identified as 29 and 31 Castle Street];
25 and 27 Church Street:
www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/11... .
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