2, Church Way

No. 2, Church Way is a house dating from approximately the mid-17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is timber-framed with a rendered front, and the ground floor is faced and/or rebuilt in brick, all painted. The roof is thatched, with gabled ends, and a central brick axial stack.

The house has a two-room plan. The central axial stack, with back-to-back fireplaces, creates a lobby entrance at the front. A 20th-century outshut is located behind the right-hand room.

The building is two storeys high with an attic. The north-west front is symmetrical, featuring two windows. It has 20th-century, horizontally-sliding, three-light sash windows with glazing bars, and a 20th-century plank front door in the centre. Small, early 2 and 3-light attic windows are set into the end gables. At the rear, there are 20th-century casement windows on the right, and a 20th-century outshut on the left.

The interior of the right and left rooms features chamfered axial beams with cyma stops, and large brick back-to-back fireplaces within the central stack; these fireplaces have chamfered timber lintels. The right-hand fireplace has a blocked oven and a 19th-century iron range. A straight staircase has been inserted against the back wall of the right-hand room, revealing exposed timber framing with close studding, a curved tension brace and a jowled wall post. Waney collars with clasped side purlins are exposed in the attic rooms' ceilings.