Butcher'S Shop And House Adjoining

A butcher's shop and house, likely dating from the 17th century, with later additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed with painted brick facades and a renewed tile roof. Its original layout comprises three units, with a meat store on the ground floor of the left-hand section, an extension to the front right forming an L-shape, and outshuts to one side and the rear left gable (under a catslide roof). A further range extends to the rear, and a shop occupies the front right.

The exterior is one-and-a-half storeys high, with two upper-stage windows. There’s an off-centre entrance with 20th-century glazed doors in a porch. The windows are largely 20th-century replacements, with a 3-light casement under an elliptical arch to the right of the door, and a projecting gable with a first-floor dormer containing a casement window and a 2-light casement. The roofs are gabled, and there's a cluster of three ridge stacks to the off-centre right and an internal stack to the front, alongside a truncated external stack to the left. The projecting gable end exhibits exposed narrow collar and tie-beams, original wall plates, and one tier of purlins. The rear wall shows evidence of small square timber-framing panels. The left gable end wall also displays original purlins and a ridge purlin, with timbers to the outshut.

The interior retains roughly-hewn timbers. The ground floor centre room features a chamfered tie-beam, while an inglenook fireplace remains visible. In the room to the right, a chamfered spine beam has a chamfered end stop to the right, with a section of wall-plate exposed. The meat store to the left has evidence of small square framing panels in the rear wall, alongside a chamfered tie-beam and the remains of an inglenook with a bressumer beam to the gable end wall, now containing bacon salting troughs. On the first floor, the left gable end displays exposed principal rafters and a tie-and-collar-beam truss with angle struts, indicating a previous roof heightening. The left room features exposed purlins and a wall-plate, with a similar exposed roof truss visible to the partition wall.