Padua Verona

This is a house, originally built around 1570, and subsequently altered in the early 19th century and 20th century. It is now divided into three separate houses. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with exposed framing visible on the exterior. The roof is covered in handmade red plain tiles and some slate. It has four bays facing southeast, with a large chimney stack positioned behind the second bay from the left end. There are catslide extensions to the rear, with tile roofing behind number 55 and slate roofing behind number 53. A 20th-century, two-storey extension to the rear of number 51 is weatherboarded and has a flat roof.

The ground floor has two early 19th-century sash windows, each with 10 panes of glass, and a butcher's shopfront at number 55, featuring 24 panes, a moulded sill, and a grill with turned balusters. The first floor has two early 19th-century sash windows, each with 5 panes of glass, one 20th-century replica window, and another 20th-century sash window with 6 panes. Number 51 has a six-panel door with four fielded and moulded panels and two glazed panels, covered by a flat canopy supported by scrolled brackets and a single stone step. Numbers 53 and 55 each have plain boarded doors. Number 55 features a panel above the door with a diagonal pattern of vents, and number 51 has a wrought iron bootscraper.

The building has a full-length jetty, underpinned with exposed nailed studding and featuring an original bressumer richly carved with grotesque scrolls, foliage, and a merchant's mark, which is damaged on the right-hand end. Above the jetty, original close studding with serpentine bracing is visible; at the left end, a section of wattle and daub is preserved behind glass. A moulded eaves cornice is also present. The right return side shows exposed close studding with trenched ‘Suffolk’ bracing above first-floor level, with plastering below. Inside, there are moulded transverse and axial beams, with joists of a simple horizontal section and roll-moulded edges. The large wood-burning hearth in number 53 has been rebuilt. Trenched serpentine bracing is also present in partition walls. Number 53 includes an 18th-century quarter-turn staircase with a moulded handrail and turned balusters at the top, and an early 19th-century cast iron grate with medallions in low relief on the first floor. The roof is a clamped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing, which is complete and unaltered.