19, Henley Street

19 Henley Street is a house dating from the mid-14th century, with alterations and heightening that occurred in the 16th and early 17th centuries, along with further additions and modifications in the 19th and late 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame, with some surviving cruck construction, small framing with plaster and whitewashed brick infill, and sections of whitewashed brick. It has a two-unit through passage plan that extends to an L-plan due to a projecting gabled addition on the left side. The house is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The late 20th-century entrance is a six-panelled door, while the 19th-century iron casements have glazing bars. There is a small 19th-century canted bay on the right side, and the right return features a heavy jowled post. The ground floor is underbuilt in whitewashed brick, with large exposed framing above, and late 20th-century windows. The rear displays exposed framing, partly in 18th-century brick, and has a large external brick stack. A late 20th-century single-storey timber-framed wing replaces an earlier similar wing. Inside, there are two pairs of crucks with a yoked apex point and a notch for the ridge, visible on both floors, along with exposed timber framing and ceiling beams. The interior also includes an open fireplace with a bressumer, winder stairs, and a 16th/17th-century trenched purlin roof above the crucks. It is said that this house was originally a hall house with three or four pairs of crucks, with an upper storey added later.