Nos 1 And 3, April Cottage (No 1) And Attached Garden Wall To Rear

This is a late 16th and early 17th century house, originally a single dwelling, that has been divided into two separate houses, numbered 1 and 3, with an attached garden wall to the rear. Later additions and alterations have been made, including an 18th-century range to the left, and further additions around 1900-1935 (outshuts to the left and right). A rebuilding of the ground floor of the main range occurred between approximately 1950 and 1970.

The house is timber-framed with brick nogging and wattle and daub infill, plastered externally, and with brickwork which is now painted or pebble-dashed. It has a plain tile roof, three tall stacks, and a triple stack with an oversailing course and decorative pots on the party wall. A pinkish-brown brick wall is also present. The building has an L-shaped layout. The gable end faces the street on the right-hand part of the house, while the wing parallel to the road at the left has a double-pitch roof and an outshut under a pentice roof to its left return. A further outshut is present to the right return.

The main range is two storeys with an attic, with two first-floor windows. The range to the left is one-and-a-half storeys high and has two ground-floor windows with a half-dormer. The timber framing is exposed externally on the main range, front and rear, and on the rear range of the left-hand wing. The main range features jowled end posts with an exposed bressumer over the ground floor, a tie beam, and small panels of square and rectangular framing to the first and attic floors. Most windows have leaded lights, some with stained glass, with those on the left-hand part set under elliptical arches. Renewed part-glazed doors provide access: one to the left-hand range within an outshut and another to the main right-hand range, also in an outshut.

Inside the main range, the ground floor has a main room to the left with a chamfered axial beam, and two transverse beams to the rear. A plank door is present, alongside a barrel-vaulted cellar. Upper floors expose square panels of timber framing, a tie beam, and jowled posts in the centre. First-floor beams have triangular-chamfered stops. Massive chamfered purlins and braces are also exposed. The left-hand part retains chamfered beams and first-floor 19th-century fireplaces. The wing retains exposed purlins and a collar beam.

A brick wall, approximately 10 metres long and 2 metres high, abuts the left-hand part of the building and extends to the rear. A historical note suggests that the range to the left may have originally been a barn, and that the building was divided around 1920.