The Herons

The Herons is a house dating from the 17th century, located on the east side of Fuller Street in Fairstead. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of slate and handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays facing west, featuring an axial stack positioned one bay from the left end and a rear stack near the right end. There is a single-storey extension at the back of the right end. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range of 20th-century casements. At the front, there is a four-panel door set within a gabled porch. The structure includes jowled posts, and the axial stack contains two wood-burning hearths made of 0.23-meter brickwork. Inside, there are two chamfered transverse beams with lamb's-tongue-and-roll stops and plain joists of vertical section. The front wall was raised approximately one metre in the early 19th century when the house was converted into two cottages, and it was restored back to a single house again in the 20th century.