73 And 74, Stock Street

Nos. 73 and 74 on Stock Street are two cottages that were originally a house built in the 16th and early 17th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with plaster and weatherboarding, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles.

The main range, dating from the 16th century, has two bays and faces approximately south. It features a 20th-century stack at the left end and a 20th-century single-storey extension beyond. To the right is an early 17th-century two-bay crosswing, which has a contemporary stack at the junction and a 19th-century catslide extension to the right with a stack at the rear corner. No. 73 includes the main range and the left extension, while No. 74 consists of the crosswing and the right extension.

The building is two storeys high, with five 20th-century casements on the ground floor and four on the first floor. There are two 20th-century doors with 19th-century gabled canopies. The roof of the crosswing is half-hipped at the front, and there are 20th-century casements at the rear. The rear is weatherboarded, while the front and sides are plastered.

Inside the main range, there are jowled posts, a binding beam supported on a hewn ledge with an ogee profile, plain joists arranged longitudinally, and one of two chamfered braces to a cambered tiebeam. There is a 20th-century grate in a 19th-century wood-burning hearth. The crosswing features jowled posts, curved braces set inside the studding, a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered bridging beams without stops, and plain joists of vertical section. The large wood-burning hearth has been reduced for a 20th-century grate.