19 Silver Street

No. 19 Silver Street is a cottage of C17 date, extended to the east in the 1960s and 1980s. The cottage is timber framed and rendered with a thatched roof, half hipped to the south.

PLAN: This is a single-cell cottage, one room to the ground floor with an internal stack to the north. The modern additions to the east are single-storey structures opening into each other.

EXTERIOR: The west elevation has a main doorway, slightly south of centre, with a six-paned horned sash window to the north. There is another small window at ground-floor level to the south gable end. The upper floor is lit by a dormer casement window to the north end of the west elevation and a small window to the south gable.

INTERIOR: The ground floor contains a single room, heated from the north by a brick fireplace with a tiled hearth, and a modern cast-iron spiral staircase at the south-east corner. The larger boarded, joist-free, opening above suggests this may originally have been an enclosed staircase. Apart from ceiling joists, visible elements of timber frame at ground-floor level include a sill beam, resting on a plinth, a post or stud immediately to the north of the front door and another to the south of the door that opens into the modern extensions.

The upper floor contains two rooms, one very small; wall plates, gable end tie beams and posts can be seen. The internal chimney stack rises against the north gable end wall.