27-29 and 31, Front Street

Two houses, dated 1677 for D M, and located on the south side of Front Street, Wolsingham. The buildings were restored around 1971 by D. Telfer. They are constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, and have a stone-flagged roof with chimneys raised in yellow brick. The building is two storeys high and has four bays.

The first house has three bays, with a raised stone surround to a boarded door situated between the first and second windows. A prominent gabled moulded hood sits above the door, and three-light, single-chamfered stone-mullioned windows are fitted with lattice glazing, each protected by a label mould. A stone lintel to the right of the second window likely marks a former door position. An incised date panel is positioned above this window. A full-height, half-octagonal bay extends to the right, featuring quoins and a catslide roof. The second house has a flat stone lintel above its boarded door and a two-storey half-octagonal bay on its left side. "WHITFIELD PLACE" is inscribed at the top left. The roof has curved kneelers on the gable coping. Three ridge chimneys are located at the centre and ends of the building.

The left room of No. 27-29 contains a wide segmental stone chimney-arch, with joggled outer voussoirs, and a salt cupboard to the left. The right room features early 18th-century panelling, alongside a box-bed cupboard. A rear stair wing is an early addition, containing a close-string open-well staircase with a high grip handrail on fat turned balusters. Moulded, square newels have melon finials and pendants, and a pulvinated string is also present.

The roof displays numbered trusses with curved principals, through purlins and collars, and a section of original wooden guttering is exposed at the rear, now incorporated into the stair wing. Numerous early 18th-century doors and fittings remain. Rear ground-floor doors are framed by flat, Tudor-arched stone surrounds.

No. 31 has an enclosed stair to the left, with a door at the foot featuring two square and two rectangular panels, the top panel pierced. An early 18th-century window seat in the upper room has legs formed from fat balusters and a panelled back.