10 And 12, East Street

This is a late 14th-century house, extended in the 16th century and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has been converted into two shops and houses and is timber-framed with plaster infill and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The original layout was a "half-H" shape facing north, consisting of a two-bay main range, a three-bay service crosswing to the right, and a two-bay parlour/solar crosswing to the left. An internal stack is located to the right of the front bay of the right crosswing, and an external stack is to the left of the rear bay of the left crosswing. A two-bay extension was added to the rear of the right crosswing in the 16th century, with a 19th-century axial stack marking the junction, and a further two-storey flat-roofed extension was added in the 20th century.

Number 10 has an early 19th-century shopfront, altered in the 20th century, featuring six reeded pilasters with paterae, an early 19th-century half-glazed door, and a blocked overlight with geometrical tracery. Number 12 has a 20th-century shopfront with a central glazed door. The first floor has four early 19th-century sash windows, each with 16 lights. A wide passage runs through the hall range, to the right of centre. Number 10 incorporates the original cross-entry, the service crosswing, and extensions to the rear, while number 12 comprises the remainder of the original structure.

The right crosswing features an underbuilt jetty supported by a single plain bracket. It retains original plain joists that are jointed to the chamfered binding beam with low-central tenons. One of the original service doorways has a chamfered four-centred arched head. A blocked, unglazed window can be found in the rear wall, marked by three diamond mortices and a shutter groove. The roof is a crownpost design with thick axial braces and a thick down-brace to the tiebeam.

The rear extension has curved braces trenched inside heavy studding, two bridging beams in each bay, and double-ogee moulded joists of horizontal section. Although the roof is inaccessible, reports indicate it is original. In the main range, the axial beam of a 16th-century inserted floor is unchamfered near the right end, suggesting a former stack, while elsewhere it is chamfered with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. In the left bay, the exposed joists are of horizontal section and chamfered with step stops, some retaining traces of original red paint. The roof of the main range was raised approximately 1.20 metres in the 17th century, evidenced by a face-halved and bladed scarf in the upper front wallplate.

A 19th-century staircase features turned newels and stick balusters. Display bracing from the left crosswing is visible in the main range. The left crosswing's jetty has a shutter groove, similar joists to the right crosswing, and a parlour doorway with a plain head and mortice for a draught screen. An edge-halved and bridled scarf is found in the right wallplate. The crownpost roof is unceiled. Notably, the collar-purlin has a splayed scarf with undersquinted butts, an unusual combination that suggests a development in roofing techniques. An edge-halved and bridled scarf is present in the right wallplate.