No. 1, Church Street

This is a late 15th-century house, altered in the 19th century. It is now commercial. The building is timber framed, with plastering and some exposed framing, and has a roof of handmade red plain tiles. It comprises a two-bay main range facing southeast, with a 19th-century stack at the rear of the left bay, and a 16th or 17th-century stack at the rear of the right bay. It also includes a two-bay wing at the rear of this range. There are single-storey lean-to extensions to the left end and at the rear of the left bay (forming a catslide), and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension beyond the rear wing. The front elevation has a late 19th-century tripartite sash window of 2:3:2 lights on the ground floor, alongside a late 19th-century sash window of 4 lights. The first floor has two 19th-century casement windows in original framed openings. A half-glazed 4-panel door provides access. A full-length underbuilt jetty is present, with the jetty plate mainly boxed in. The upper storey framing is exposed, with curved tension braces trenched outside studding, most of which is original. A wrought iron bracket marks the site of a former inn sign. A moulded wooden eaves cornice is present, with a plain bracket below the jetty at the right end, visible from inside. Similar curved bracing, trenched outside the studs, is present in both side walls, but is not exposed externally. The studding of internal partitions has been removed on both storeys. Hearths have been blocked. The roof is a complete crown-post roof with axial bracing. At the left end of the upper storey, the wattle and daub infill has been removed, revealing a post and line of studs that remain from a building formerly abutting to the left, which was demolished to build a fire station, now itself replaced. The building was formerly the Plough and Sails Inn, later the Black Boy Inn, and closed in the early 20th century, subsequently known as Manchester House.