82 AND 84, MAIN ROAD

This is a house dating from the 17th century, with later additions at the south end. It is timber-framed and has been roughcast rendered, with a steeply pitched roof covered in asbestos slate. A red brick ridge stack is visible where the main range meets the crosswing, now rendered over, and there’s a side stack to the crosswing. The house is L-shaped, with a wing at the north end. It has two storeys. The windows are mostly horizontally sliding sashes from the 19th century, with two on the ground floor, one of which serves a lean-to stair bay opposite the stack. The crosswing has a four-light horizontal sliding sash window at the first floor, with small panes divided by a mullion. The property was extended at the south end by one bay, and the entrance to number 82 was created within this extension. There is a possibility that the original layout included a baffle entry plan which was altered during the extension. Inside, the room at the south end features an inglenook hearth and a quartered ceiling with broach and run-out stops. The northern wing, which may have originally been a parlour, has an inglenook hearth that has since been blocked. An 18th-century fireplace includes an eared architrave and a moulded cornice.