Smithy

No 18 and Smithy is a 15th-century timber-framed and plastered house with a 17th-century smithy located at the corner of Chipping Hill and Church Street. The building is still in use as a smithy. It features cross wings at both the north-west and south-east ends. The upper storey jetties out at the south-west end and on the south-east cross wing. The exterior is now cement rendered, while the south end is covered in weatherboarding, and there is a weatherboarded wing extending at the rear. The building has two storeys and a three-window range on the south-west front, with casements that include glazing bars, one of which has old leaded lights. The south-east front has a single window range with double-hung sash windows that also have glazing bars. The roofs are tiled, and there is a 17th-century central brick chimney stack with two diagonally set shafts.

No 18 and Smithy is part of a group that includes Nos 20 to 30 (even), the Parish Church of St Nicholas, the Vicarage, No 35 (Barnardiston), and Nos 43 to 55 (odd) and No 2 (White Horse Public House) on Church Street. It also forms a group with No 7 (Woolpack Inn) and Nos 22 to 48 (even) on Church Street.