18 And 20, Beastfair

A pair of houses located in Snaith and Cowick Beastfair, dating to the mid-18th century, with later 19th-century alterations to No. 18 and 20th-century changes to No. 20. No. 18 is now a house and shop. The houses are constructed of brick, colour-washed to No. 18, with a rendered front to No. 20. No. 18 has a pantile roof, while No. 20 has concrete tiles. Both houses have a double-depth, two-room central lobby-entry plan and are two storeys with an attic, each with three bays.

No. 18 features a step leading to a 19th-century panelled door and plain overlight within an architrave, topped by a rubbed-brick flat arch. To the right is a single-light plate-glass shop window within a pilastered surround, adorned with a frieze and cornice with a hood. A 19th-century plate-glass sash is to the left, set within the original flush wooden architrave and under a rubbed-brick flat arch. The first floor has similar sashes and a central blind window panel beneath shallower flat arches. No. 20 has a 20th-century glazed door flanked by inserted 20th-century windows, with two further 20th-century windows on the first floor within the original openings. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers are present. Large, single axial stacks are located on each house.

The interior of No. 18 retains original features, including a dogleg staircase, spine beams with run-out stops, and a series of fitted cupboards. These include a corner cupboard to the ground-floor rear right with fielded-panel doors within a keyed architrave, and alcoves to both the front and rear of the first floor, featuring round-headed, Gothick-glazed doors above panelled doors and two-fold fielded-panel doors within keyed architraves respectively. The roof is a collared rafter structure with clasped purlins. The interior of No. 20 has not been inspected.