19 Silver Street

No. 19 Silver Street is a 17th-century cottage that was extended to the east in the 1960s and 1980s. The cottage features a timber frame with a rendered finish and a thatched roof that is half hipped to the south.

The cottage has a single-cell plan, consisting of one room on the ground floor with an internal stack located to the north. The modern additions to the east are single-storey structures that open into each other.

On the exterior, the west elevation has a main doorway slightly south of center, accompanied by a six-paned horned sash window to the north. There is also a small window at ground-floor level on the south gable end. The upper floor is illuminated by a dormer casement window at the north end of the west elevation and a small window on the south gable.

Inside, the ground floor comprises a single room heated by a brick fireplace with a tiled hearth, and features a modern cast-iron spiral staircase in the southeast corner. The larger boarded opening above suggests that this may have originally been an enclosed staircase. Visible elements of the timber frame at ground-floor level include a sill beam resting on a plinth, a post or stud immediately north of the front door, and another post to the south of the door leading into the modern extensions.

The upper floor contains two rooms, one of which is very small. Wall plates, gable end tie beams, and posts are visible, and the internal chimney stack rises against the north gable end wall.