108, West Street

No. 108 West Street is a crosswing of a former hall house, now functioning as a house. It dates back to the 15th century and has been altered in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with exposed framing at the front and plastered sections elsewhere, and it is roofed with handmade red plain tiles. It features a 3-bay range with its gable end facing the road, originally part of a hall house to the right, which was replaced around 1600 by the current No. 106.

An early 19th-century axial stack is located at the junction of the middle and rear bays, and there is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof at the rear. The house has two storeys and includes one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights on each floor. Access is provided through a 20th-century door in the right return, leading through a passageway.

The front features an underbuilt jetty, with the original lower wall moved forward to align with the upper wall, exposing the ends of joists that are horizontally sectioned. There are 20th-century ornamental paired curved tension braces at each storey, placed in trenches for the original braces. The front tiebeam displays a bowtell in great casement moulding. The front roof has been rebuilt to align with the street and forms a continuous range with the right side.

Inside, there are chamfered binding beams, unstopped, on ledged and jowled posts, with joists that are plastered to the soffits. A small wood-burning hearth is present in the front lower room. The left wallplate features an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint, and there are grooves for sliding shutters in both wallplates, with a blocked unglazed window near the rear corner of the right plate. Original rebated oak floorboards are found in the front bay. The crownpost roof has undergone significant alterations, with the front bays completely rebuilt in the 19th century and an original gablet hip extended to form a gable at the rear. The original rafter couples and collars remain between these alterations, along with a stump of the collar-purlin in the gablet.