37 And 39, Clapgun Street

Two houses and a shop, dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building was originally timber-framed; the left bay retains diagonal close studding to the jettied first-floor gable. The remainder of the building was mostly rebuilt, and is now roughcast and colourwashed. It has plain tile roofs and a colourwashed chimney on the right side. The layout is L-shaped, with the left bay forming a gabled cross wing and later rear extensions.

The building is two storeys high and has two bays facing the street. The left bay has a jettied upper storey with a 20th-century three-light transomed wooden casement window. The studding immediately below the window has been rearranged in the 20th century. The ground floor of the left bay has an early 19th-century shop front with wooden glazing bars and central mid-19th-century double doors, which are half-glazed with patterned glazing bars. The right bay has 20th-century barred wooden windows with top-lights, and a 19th-century six-panelled door to the left, set within an early to mid-19th-century wooden doorcase featuring moulded pilaster strips, a frieze with square paterae, and a simple cornice hood. The left side of the cross wing has irregular 20th-century windows and a door, along with one 19th-century three-light horizontal sash window. The far end was originally a bakehouse, but no original features survive.

Inside the front bays of the cross wing are heavy 16th-century floor joists. The interior of the right bay may be of interest, though it was not inspected.