109, WATER LANE

This is a house located at 109 Water Lane, dating from the early 17th century and extended in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house has three bays facing southwest and features a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. It has two storeys and a single-storey wing added to the rear in the 19th century, which includes an internal stack at the end. The front has a two-window range of 19th-century casements and a central boarded door topped with a flat canopy supported by scrolled brackets. The date 1797 is incised in modern plaster above the door, and there are two 19th-century twisted shafts in Tudor Revival style.

At the rear, just below the eaves, there is a small 17th-century wrought iron casement with diamond leading and early handmade glass, likely original to the building. The structure features jowled posts, heavy studding, and primary straight bracing. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops in the left bay, while the right bay has exposed plain joists of horizontal section that are raised approximately 0.12 meters. The large wood-burning hearths contain 20th-century grates, and the doors are battended and beaded. The front wallplates show face-halved and bladed scarf joints.