11 to 12 Sparrow Hill, Loughborough (Grade II)

House, now 2 shops. Probably C16 in origin. Timber framed (post and panel framing is visible through the partly demolished building to the right) but with stuccoed front elevation of early C19 character. Two storeys, 3 window range, 1-1-1 with central gabled projection. Angle quoins, bargeboards to gable. 1st floor central sash window, flanked by C20 three light windows. C20 shop fronts to ground floor. Swithland slate roof. Massive stone chimney stack heightened in brick. Interior first floor medieval stone fireplace, with angle columns carved out of the inner faces of the jambs and with a plain flat head. Rear timber framed wing partly rebuilt in brick and later brick extension parallel to main block.