Edgton

Edgton is a house that has been divided into a public house and shop, now serving as two dwellings. It dates from the mid-17th century, with the eaves raised in the late 18th or 19th century, along with later additions and alterations. The building features a roughcast and rendered timber frame, rubblestone, and red brick, topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys high, with 19th and 20th-century casement windows, five on each floor, positioned directly below the eaves on the first floor. There are boarded doors on the far left and under a concrete block porch to the right, as well as a four-panel door to the left of centre, which has a flat bracketed hood above it.

The framing is partially exposed on the right gable end, revealing an original principal rafter beneath the raised eaves. There is an external red brick stack on the right and a ridge stack on the left. The back wall features a large integral rubblestone stack with a red brick shaft. At the rear, there is a late 19th-century two-storey red brick addition at right angles on the right side and a single-storey red brick addition to the left.

Inside, the timber frame is partly exposed throughout No. 5, including in the cross walls, which have square panels and vertical posts supporting the raised eaves. The main ground-floor room includes two deep-chamfered spine beams with stepped triangular stops, and a similar beam is found in the room to the right. There is a stone corner fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and a 19th-century cast-iron cooking range in the main room, along with a similar fireplace in the left room. The floors are made of stone flags throughout. The roof structure consists of a collar and tie beam design in three bays (previously double-purlin), with exposed trusses featuring short straight braces from the wall plate and tie beams to the wall posts. This roof structure likely continues into No. 6, which has not been inspected, possibly making a total of six bays. The first floor has wide boarded oak floorboards, and it is said that the timber frame remains substantially intact under plaster in No. 6.