The house, whose front forms the prominent object in the drawing, is one of several claimants to the title of ‘oldest in the Town’. It is neighbour to the Wrestler's Inn, in which it is said Jeremy Taylor was born, and is part of the Petty Cury. This front soon arrests the attention of the passenger who takes any interest in architecture. Unlike its neighbour, which was the latest built in this style (1634), and has fallen an earlier victim to the modern taste for plain brick and mortar, this has preserved its ornamental character, showing the rose, the emblem of the reigning family, within flowing lines, arranged in borders that divide the gables; and made gay with the once much admired expedient of paint. If the observer penetrate beyond the surface, in the Inn Yard he might imagine himself living in another age of building. Here he beholds portions advanced like oriels, and rising aloft, having the whole breadth of each face occupied by window, and terminating in pediments which are either surmounted with minarets of wood carved in some fantastic shape, or support, at the vertical angle, pendants of similar character. On another side a gallery runs between the basement and upper story into which all the rooms of this floor open. The front is intersected by beams, and presents a surface of plaister worked in a hexagonal pattern.