44 AND 45, OLD LANE

Nos. 44 and 45 on Old Lane are a house that has been converted into two cottages. Originally built in the 16th century, the building underwent alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The structure is a single range facing southeast, with a central stack, an internal stack at the left end, and an external stack at the right end. It has two storeys and a five-window range of late 19th-century casements. There are also two late 19th-century half-glazed doors, each topped with a gabled canopy supported by brackets. The building has six octagonal shafts that have been reduced in height and are linked at the top. The ridge to the right of the stack is slightly higher than that to the left. The left return features 18th-century red brick in Flemish bond on the lower storey only. Inside, there are jowled posts, curved bracing trenched inside the studding, a chamfered axial beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. The wallplates are chamfered and stopped.