16, Main Street

No 16 on Main Street is a house that likely dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with possible earlier origins. It features a plastered timber frame and brick construction, topped with a steeply pitched plain tile roof that has gabled ends and a mansard roof at the east end. The building includes brick axial and gable end stacks, with the axial stack having diagonally set shafts.

The layout consists of a four-room plan with a lobby entrance adjacent to the central axial stack, which has back-to-back fireplaces serving the two central rooms. The left end room is part of a short cross-wing, while the two rooms on the right appear to be a 17th-century addition. There is an outshut at the rear of the centre left room.

The house is two storeys tall, with a one-storey and attic section. It has a long four-window range, where the left side is in a gabled cross-wing that is slightly set back from the front. The right side consists of two brick bays, one storey and attic, featuring lower eaves to the mansard roof and a wide 20th-century dormer. All windows are late 20th-century two and three-light casements with glazing bars. The main roof extends down over a brick porch at the centre. At the rear, the gable end of the cross-wing on the right has a brick stack, while the left has a mansard roof and outshuts in between.

Inside, there are chamfered axial beams and exposed joists. The right and left of centre rooms have bar stops, while the right of centre room features cyma and notched stops along with step-stopped joists. The cross-wing has a chamfered axial beam without stops and a large fireplace in the rear gable end with replaced lintels. Some timber framing is exposed, and the roof spaces are ceiled, although collared common rafters are visible over the left of centre room.