5, 7 And 9, Stourport Road

A house, now divided into three houses and a shop, dating back to the 14th century, with significant remodelling in the early 18th century, and further alterations in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The building is constructed of timber framing, with brick cladding, some rendered areas, and a tile roof. It has a T-plan shape, with a cross-wing at the east end. Originally, the hall was an open two-bay space with a spere and screens at the east end, a cross-wing at the lower end, and a single bay in line with the hall at the upper end.

The south front displays two gables to the left, and the cross-wing to the right. It is two storeys high with an attic, lit by windows in the gables. Number 5 has two windows with glazing bar sashes under rubbed brick heads, repeated on the ground floor. A lean-to addition on the left-hand side contains an entrance with a gabled wooden canopy supported on wooden brackets and a 20th-century half-glazed door. Number 7 features three windows with boxed glazing bar sashes under painted wedge lintels, and a 2-light casement to the right. The ground floor has three boxed glazing bar sashes and a roughly central entrance with a plain wooden architrave, a triangular wooden canopy, a 2-pane overlight, and a four-panel door. Number 9 is rendered and has two windows with 2-light casements. On the ground floor, it has a 3-light casement to the right; a new entrance has been created on the left-hand side, with the original entrance blocked immediately to its right, featuring a plain wooden architrave and a 20th-century glazed door.

The timber framing reveals a base cruck central truss within the hall, visible in the attic. This has an aisle-plate clasped between the top of the curved members and the cambered tie-beam, which is braced below with cusped arch-braces. The upper roof is supported by a crown-post with concave braces and a crown-plate below the collar. Scissor-braces, halved over the collar, run parallel to the common rafters. The cross-wing (number 9) is reported to possess a two-bay crown post roof of similar construction.