106 AND 106A, WEST STREET

This is a late 16th and circa 1600 house, later altered in the early 19th century and 20th, and now divided into two separate houses. The house is timber-framed, with some sections plastered and other parts revealing the timber structure, and has a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. It has four bays facing south, with a central chimney stack positioned one bay from the right end, creating a lobby-entrance area. The lower level of the left bay serves as a passageway through to the rear, originally constructed or inserted in the 17th century. A three-bay wing extends to the rear of the right end, dating from circa 1600 and with its own axial stack. The main range constitutes number 106, while the rear wing is number 106A.

The house is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is one sash window fitted circa 1800 with 16 lights, and one 20th-century replacement. The first floor features two similar sash windows and a 20th-century sash window with 12 lights above the passageway. A jetty, or projecting bay, has been underbuilt and plastered, while the framing of the upper storey remains exposed. Evidence of mortise holes indicates that oriels (bay windows) once existed in the locations of the larger first-floor sash windows. To either side of the left-hand ground floor window are blocked original flanking windows, retaining one ovolo mullion. The left-hand window also displays two diamond saddle bars. A circa 1800 six-panel door, with flush bottom panels, is set within a plain doorcase surmounted by a shallow flat canopy, and has one stone step leading up to it. Timber framing is visible in the right-hand gable. Inside the passageway are two chamfered bridging beams featuring run-out lambs tongue stops.

The rear elevation has a plastered lower storey with an exposed timber upper storey. A room on the ground floor of the main range has a chamfered axial beam and horizontal section joists, all with lambs tongue stops, along with a blocked hearth. The right-hand ground-floor room displays a chamfered axial beam, plain joists of vertical section, and a wood-burning hearth which has been adapted for a 20th-century grate. An early 19th-century quarter-turn staircase is located at the rear, with a turned newel, hardwood rail, and stick balusters. Structural features include jowled posts with offset tenons, ledges for binding beams, close studding with curved braces trenched to the inside, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, and a roof with a clasped purlin and arched wind-bracing. The rear wing features jowled posts, similar scarf joints, and plain axial beams with plain joists of vertical section. The arcaded door and panelling which were previously recorded are no longer present.