4 And 6, Boot Street

Nos 4 and 6 Boot Street is a house that has been divided into two cottages. The building has a core that dates back to the 14th or 15th century, but it was remodeled in the 17th century or early 18th century, with significant alterations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed of rendered brick and features one true cruck truss, topped with a slate roof. Originally, it was designed as an open-hall house, though the exact number of bays is unknown. The building now stands at two storeys and has a dentilled eaves cornice. There are four late 20th-century casement windows directly below the eaves and two on the ground floor, positioned one to the left and one to the right. The right part of the building, No. 4, includes garage doors on the left and a roughly central entrance with a late 20th-century door. A large stepped external end stack is located to the right, and a ridge stack is positioned to the left at the junction with No. 6. Inside, a large true cruck truss with an arch-braced collar beam and king-strut can be seen beneath the plaster in the left first-floor room of No. 4, with part of the feet visible in a cupboard on the ground floor. Another cruck truss, located to the right of the surviving cruck, is reported to have been removed during alterations around 1960.