72, East Street

No. 72 East Street is a house that dates from the mid-16th century and 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The building has a three-bay range facing north, featuring a large internal stack at the right end and a smaller external stack from the 18th or 19th century at the left end. There is a two-bay wing from the 17th century at the rear of the left and middle bays, which has a 19th-century stack on the right. At the rear, two catslide extensions meet at a valley.

The house is two storeys tall and has three 20th-century casements on the ground floor and two on the first floor. The front has ashlar plaster. There is a 20th-century door located on the left side of the left wing. Between the two right bays of the main range, there is an open truss with a cambered tie beam that is stop-chamfered with step stops, although the braces to it are missing. The large wood-burning hearth has been reduced for an early 19th-century fireplace, with cupboards on each side. There is a chamfered axial beam with step stops and plain joists of horizontal section in front of it, while the thinner joists at the rear have been replaced. The rear wall displays exposed studding with curved braces trenched to the outside, enclosed by a rear lean-to. There are two grooves in the wallplate for sliding shutters of blocked unglazed windows, and edge-halved and bridled scarfs can be seen in both wallplates.

The left bay has undergone more alterations, with intermediate studs on the ground floor removed, an 18th-century chamfered transverse beam with long lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of narrow section. There is a 20th-century brick hearth here. The rear wing features a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section, unjowled posts, and a clasped purlin roof. The right pitch of this roof has been raised in the 19th century to a shallower angle. The building was formerly known as The Star Inn and, in 1731, as The Swan and Star.