27 And 28, Wood Street

27 and 28 Wood Street is a town house that has been converted into an office and shop. It dates from the early 16th century, with the first lease recorded in 1535, although it may include some earlier elements as the site was tenanted back to the 1440s. There is no evidence of a fire occurring here in the late 16th century. The building features a timber frame with plaster and some brick infill, topped by a renewed tile roof that includes a cross-axial stack.

The structure is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The upper floor juts out over the ground floor, supported by exposed soffit timbers on both the Wood and Rother Streets sides. The ground floor has 20th-century shop windows and entrances, with some decorative brick nogging beneath and between the windows. The first floor includes a small square window and large and small three-light windows, the latter possibly originally oriel windows, along with a two-light window at the right end, all of which date to at least the early 19th century and feature leaded glazing. The ground floor has wall posts and a dragon beam with a simply carved face and basic embellishments on a possibly 20th-century post.

On the right side facing Rother Street, there are shop windows, and the first floor has two 20th-century leaded three-light casements, along with a three-light window in the attic. There is a single-storey wing with an attic to the right, featuring close studding above the shop window and a gabled dormer with a two-light leaded casement. A bracketed corner post supports the dragon beam. The building includes early 19th-century casements and an early central stack with old tiles. The 20th-century shop fronts are present, while the rear displays some exposed timber framing, a gabled wing, and a catslide roof with a large flat-roofed 20th-century dormer window.

Inside, the building retains exposed beams, some of which are broadly chamfered, and a fireplace with a bressumer.