41 And 42, Henley Street

41 and 42 Henley Street is a town house that has been converted into a shop. It dates back to the early 16th century and was refronted around 1820. The building features a timber-frame structure with some wattle and daub infill panels, and the front is painted white. It has a tiled roof with a brick stack at the end. Originally, it was L-shaped with a gabled cross-wing to the right that projects at the rear.

The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range. There is a plain brick cornice, and the entrance is round-headed with a plain fanlight above a half-glazed door. Flanking the entrance are 20th-century bay windows with round-headed lights and fascias. To the left, there is an elliptical-arched carriage entry. The first floor features windows with sills and 12-pane sashes, and there is a 20th-century bay window with plate glass at the entry. The rear of the building has two gabled wings and a 20th-century addition.

The 19th-century front conceals a hall range of one and a half bays, which includes a through-passage in the half-bay to the left and the former gable end of the cross-wing to the right. Mortices in the surviving timbers of the 16th-century front indicate close studding, former window positions, and a jettied gable end over the through-passage entry and the cross-wing.

Inside, the hall was originally open to the roof and had a gallery at the rear to connect the floor over the through-passage with the first floor of the cross-wing. A late 16th-century or early 17th-century floor is supported by a bridging beam inserted into the hall. The cross frames are largely complete, although some evidence of doorways is missing, particularly on the ground floor of the hall and through-passage. The roof features queen strut trusses tied by through or trenched purlins, with some wind braces. The cross-wing originally had two rooms on each floor, but the infill to the cross-frame partition has now been removed. The 19th-century eaves and front roof slope have been raised above the original 16th-century eaves line, and there is later infill in the angle of the hall and cross-wing at the rear.