Sj Bunting

This is a house, now divided into two houses and a shop, dating to the early 16th century or possibly earlier, with alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of timber framing, with plastering and some weatherboarding, and has a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The original main range faces northwest and has a stack to the rear of the left bay, with an earlier 16th or 17th century wing behind it. A later wing extends to the rear of the right end, and a small two-storey extension with a flat roof sits between the wings. A 19th-century single-storey extension with a slate roof projects to the rear of the left wing.

The front of the building has a 20th-century bowed oriel window on the ground floor, and an early 20th-century shopfront featuring two 2-light windows, central half-glazed double doors with an overlight, and a moulded fascia. The first floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with 12 lights. A 20th-century half-glazed door is located at the left end. The plasterwork is ashlar style. The shop interior is fully lined, as is the wing behind the shop, but exposed timbers at the front indicate a jettied construction.

Inside the house to the left are chamfered transverse and axial beams, with the joists having plastered soffits. A straight staircase from the early 19th century includes a moulded pine handrail, turned newels, and stick balusters. The rear left wing contains heavy transverse plain joists of horizontal section, and a blocked stair trap. On the first floor, original floorboards are present, along with some exposed studding. At the rear of the main range, a complete unglazed window with four diamond mullions and a shutter groove remains, along with chamfered axial beams and joists with plastered soffits. Some studding was removed to accommodate access to the extension at the rear of the left house, and a fragment of a 17th-century moulded door is incorporated into a wall. A 18th-century two-panel pine door and its hinges are also present. Jowled posts are a distinctive feature. While no access to the roof is available, exposed rafters at the rear of the left wing show evidence of a trenched crownpost roof. The rear of the right wing is weatherboarded.

The building was formerly known as Padlock House, a name derived from a large padlock sign that was displayed on the front. This sign was removed when the shop changed from an ironmonger's to a butcher's in 1985, although it was still in the possession of the owner of the left side of the property in May 1987. Deeds from 1643 are associated with the property. It was known as Plummers in 1576.