14, East Street

This is a timber-framed house, dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It is part of a former hall house, extending to the left and incorporating elements recorded as numbers 9/109 and 9/110. The original structure includes a two-bay crosswing with an external brick stack to the right, and a 16th-century two-bay wing at the rear, with a 20th-century single-storey lean-to beyond.

The front block has two exceptionally high storeys. The ground floor has one sash window with six lights plus one, fitted with 20th-century louvred shutters. The first floor has a sash window in an early 19th-century style, also with similar shutters. A 19th-century six-panel pine door is set within an early 19th-century doorcase, featuring reeded jambs, paterae, and a moulded flat canopy.

Inside, a passage on the left aligns with the original cross-entry and has two blocked wide doorways with four-centred heads in the right wall. A low jetty is present. Architectural details include a post with one moulded bracket and an attached shaft, curved braces trenched outside heavy, close studding, and internal attached shafts to the middle wallposts, with moulded bases and capitals. Other features are a moulded binding beam with arched braces, moulded wallplates with converging stops, a moulded cambered tiebeam with arched braces, and an inaccessible roof containing original handmade red plain tiles, soulaces to every rafter couple, and a central crownpost with a moulded base, moulded and crenellated capital, and four-way rising braces.

The stack is original or early, constructed of brick and tiles in a random bond, visible from number 12. A 16th-century stone fireplace has moulded jambs, attached round shafts, a moulded depressed arch with foliate carving in the spandrels, and a blocked 20th-century grate. Various scratched inscriptions, including "PAYCOK ANNO 16--" in black-letter script, are visible on the fireplace, but are not original to the building. A blocked first-floor doorway with a four-centred head is found in the rear wall. The rear wing has rebated and chamfered wallplates with step stops, a cambered central tiebeam, and a crownpost roof with all axial braces 0.08 metres thick, along with introduced early 17th-century oak panelling.