Barnwells, built in about 1500, is a grade 1 listed property. It is of jointed cruck and stone and flint construction under a stone tile roof.
It is described in Historic Monuments England – West Dorset: Range of houses on West side of Abbey Street is of two storeys; the walls are of stone and timber framing and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The whole range was built c.1500, the individual tenements being separated by stone party walls with elaborately moulded corbelling at the level of the upper storey….No. 2 (Barnwells [now no 9]), formerly the Nags Head Inn, has a similar front to No. 1 [now no 15], but has curved brackets under the first floor projection. It has 18th-century alterations including the bay window, staircase and entry. Inside the building there are two original four-centred heads fireplaces [plus one other] and some plank-partitions.