60 And 62, Main Street

60 and 62 Main Street are two houses that likely have their origins in the 16th century, with later encasements from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as alterations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are timber-framed with rubble sandstone walling, partly rendered, and feature a stone slate roof. The layout is an irregular T-shape, consisting of a 2-bay hall block and a 2-bay cross-wing. Number 60 occupies the cross-wing and an adjacent bay of the hall block, while Number 62 occupies the original end bay and an added bay.

The houses are two storeys tall. The front facing the road, formed by the side wall of the cross-wing, has quoins and irregular rubble at the ground floor, with thinly-coursed stone above. Each floor has two windows, all of which are renewed casements with glazing bars, and the lintels are tooled as voussoirs. There is a projecting brick end stack on the right, which has been recently rebuilt, and another end stack on the front left roof slope. A small, single-storey addition at the front left features a 16-pane sash window.

On the right return, there is an exposed wall post at the right corner of the gable. A 20th-century porch is located in the angle with the hall block, and there are casements on each floor of the adjacent bay. Number 62, to the right, is now rendered and has a 20th-century door flanked by casements with glazing bars on each floor, along with shutters. The ridge is lower with end stacks, and there is a single-storey addition to the right. The left return includes a 20th-century porch to the right in the angle with the roadside addition. The adjacent bay of the hall block has a shallow aisle projection with an exposed wall post in the return wall. There is a lean-to addition at the rear of Number 62, and to its right, the infilled oak frame of a 3-light mullioned window is preserved within the walling, with the head of a stud or wall post exposed above.

Inside, the central posts and truss of the cross-wing are partially exposed, with first-floor beams resting on a transverse mid-rail. The rest of the framework is largely obscured. The adjoining bay occupied by Number 62 has a spine beam that shows traces of 16th or 17th-century painting. A curved downbrace in the original end wall of the hall block at first-floor level, which is now plastered over, indicates an early construction date. The roof structure of Number 62 has been reconstructed at a shallower pitch.