In the 18th century this building underwent very substantial changes. Many buildings in Droitwich were re-fronted or re-faced in brick at this time (including the underbuilding of a previously recessed ground floor under a jetty), but here a complete new street (north) frontage was constructed in brick on a different alignment, parallel with the current (and presumably contemporary) front building line of the neighbouring properties. In other words, the whole street frontage of this building was moved northwards, which required the construction of a completely new brick front wall at all levels and, as an attic floor was added, included a new roof; and with windows to match at all levels. But the structural timbers of the 15th century building remained embedded in this new creation of Georgian date, and are still there, a tribute to their strength and durability.
In the 19th century the building was notorious for the effects of subsidence (due to brine extraction), and as a public house (the Waggon and Horses, but more popularly the Crooked House) attracted visitors who, among other effects, watched a sphere apparently roll uphill on a table.
Further changes occurred in the 19th century and later to the doors and windows of the ground floor; at this level the building was divided into two shops which needed their own entrances.
