Timbers

This is a house dating back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. Originally, the house consisted of a two-bay open hall and a single-bay storeyed parlour or solar to the left. A large mid-16th century axial stack is located at the right end, and a later 17th or 18th century internal stack is at the left end. A single-storey rear extension was added in the late 17th or 18th century to the left end – a further rear extension on the right now connects to number 18 (Bridge House).

The house is two storeys high with attics, and has a two-window front with early 19th century sash windows of 16 lights, some containing crown glass. A central front door has five panels, the top one glazed, set within an eared doorcase featuring a pulvinated frieze and pediment. Wooden dentils are found below the eaves. The left return side has a late 18th century two-light window with a wrought iron casement on the ground floor, and a 17th century two-light window with a wrought casement and decorative fretted latch-plate in the attic gable; both windows have rectangular leading.

The right ground-floor room contains a wide wood-burning hearth. An inserted floor from around 1560 features chamfered transverse and axial beams, with plain square section joists joined to them using soffit tenons with diminished haunches. There is a rebate for a former unglazed window, now replaced. The left ground-floor room, originally the parlour, has a chamfered axial beam with plain joists joined with unrefined soffit tenons, replaced in part by narrower plain joists of vertical section. Carpenters' marks are visible, and a 20th century grate is present. The upper storey has a 17th century wood-burning hearth with a rounded interior and a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue and notch stops. A scarf joint is visible in the front wallplate, along with jowled posts and some exposed wattle and daub infill in the rear wall. The attic floor is also from the 17th century, with chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The roof structure consists of collar-rafter couples, with trenches in many rafters indicating removed collars. Sections of the front wall have been rebuilt during the 16th and 18th centuries, and there is evidence of a former oriel window on the upper storey. The upper storey at the southwest end partially overlaps the lower storey of number 18 (Bridge House).