37,39, QUEEN STREET

SE2918 HORBURY QUEEN STREET (west side)

9/17 Nos 37 and 39

GV II

Shop premises. Timber frame probably C16. Encased in brick probably C19. The front is rendered. The front range has a stone roof, the rear wing slate. Two storeys. 2-bay front with rear single-bay wing to a now removed 3rd bay to left. Two entrances and altered ground floor windows. Two casement windows to 1st floor with slightly cambered heads. No 37 is a single storey lean-to shop of late C20 not of special interest but built on the site of the demolished front left bay. The rear wing has a cambered headed window to ground floor and a tripartite square headed window to 1st floor with horizontal sliding sash. Interior: timber framing visible. 3 pairs of jowelled posts, wall plates. Left truss has tie beam only visible, centre truss has king-post and raking queen struts with housings under the tie-beam for studding (some repair work), right truss has king-post and vertical studs. Braces have been removed. A chamfer can be seen, on the front wall plate, for a window opening. A stop-chamfered spine beam supports chamfered 1st floor joists. The rear wing has trusses with very deep, cambered tie-beams supported on posts.

Listing NGR: SE2947718353