30, Main Street

No. 30 Main Street is a house dating from the late 16th century, originally timber-framed and later encased in stone in the mid-18th century. The building features coursed rubble and a stone slate roof. It has a three-room plan with a lobby-entry, which was altered during the stone phase to allow direct entry into the second cell. There is a rear outshut. The house stands two storeys high and has three first-floor windows, along with a single-storey outshut. The doorway, which has a monolithic lintel, is situated between the second and third bays and is accessed by a double flight of five stone steps. The windows have deep sills and thin lintels, and they retain three-light small-pane Yorkshire sashes. There is a brick ridge stack between the first two cells and a gable stack to the right. At the rear, the outshut features two doorways, one of which has a 20th-century storm porch, and two Yorkshire sash windows beneath a cat-slide roof. To the left, there is a later addition that is not of special interest.

Inside, the first cell contains large-scantling square-cut floor joists and a bressumer for a former fire-hood that is back-to-back with another bressumer in the second cell, which is covered with oak panelling and supports a stop-chamfered spine beam. The outshut has five posts with joweled heads and curved braces to the arcade-plate. The king-post trusses have been re-aligned, and the one over the first cell was altered in the 18th century to a fish-bone king-post truss.

The layout suggests that the accommodation originally included a kitchen, housebody, and parlour, with service rooms in the outshut, one of which still retains a hand-pump and stone sink. This house is an important example of a 16th-century timber-framed structure, notable for its back-to-back fire-hoods, a feature only observed elsewhere in the region at Rigton Green Cottage. It is said to have served as the village Court House.